Swiss satellite cleanup

According to the Associated Press, Swiss scientists plan to launch a specially designed "gate guard satellite" to clean up debris flying around orbits that people call 'space junk'.

>>>Alarm on garbage on the universe

The Swiss 10 million franc satellite called CleanSpace One, the prototype of such a satellite line, is being built by the Swiss Space Center of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Space garbage is surrounding the Earth

On February 15, EPFL said that the launch of the satellite will take place within 3-5 years and its first task is to grab two Swiss satellites launched in 2009 and 2010.

The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) says more than 500,000 fragments of boosters, satellites and other debris are being tracked as they fly around Earth orbit fast enough to harm a defense. crystal or a space ship.