Pac-man is sent into space to clean up garbage?

We have about 500,000 pieces of trash, ranging from 1cm to 10cm, and about 22,000 other pieces larger than 10cm are flying around Earth orbit.

Will Switzerland send Pac-man into space to clean up garbage?

Although they are not dangerous to humans on the ground, it will be extremely bad for astronauts working in space as well as other satellites in orbit.

The amount of cosmic waste is increasing rapidly due to the launch of human satellites. At a speed of 7 km / s, they are really a danger that needs to be taken into account when performing outer space missions.

Last April, Japanese scientists proposed the idea of ​​installing lasers on the ISS International Space Station to destroy these pieces.

Dr. Toshikazu Ebisuzaki said that this laser gun can destroy pieces of trash at a distance of 100km. In the future, laser guns can be equipped for single satellites to be able to search and destroy debris in critical areas.

Recently, engineers at the Lausanne Institute of Technology in Switzerland have studied and created a specialized satellite for space waste collection.

Satellite cleaning of space trash is the result of the project ' Clean up space 1' . This solution comes from the idea of Pac- game that we are familiar with.

After three years of research and development, engineers have successfully built the garbage collection device and will put it into operation in 2018.

This device is quite small, size 10x10cm, when approaching the pieces of cosmic trash will open a grid and collect garbage into the inside.

After capturing the pieces, all of them will be destroyed when they fly into the earth's atmosphere.