Switzerland launched a satellite to look after space in 2018

Switzerland plans to launch the first "space-watching" satellite in 2018, according to Russian Voice on October 4.

Cosmic garbage is increasingly "rich" - (Photo: CAYPEN)

Scientists at the Swiss Space Center of the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in the city of Lausanne, plan to launch a satellite weighing less than 30kg, called CleanSpace One , with the assigned task of defending Expired crystals return to Earth.

This mini shuttle satellite will be put into space on the "back" of an Airbus 300. The initial cost is estimated at about 15 million Swiss francs ($ 16 million).

The said satellite will use a special "machine hand" to collect cosmic garbage. When the compartment is full, the satellite will end its "suicide" mission by returning to Earth's atmosphere, where it will be burned along with cosmic garbage.