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Outer space: Switzerland takes the lead cleaning up the mess 

This content was published on Dec 9, 2019 Engineers at ClearSpace, a spin-off of Space Center (eSpace) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), have found a way of capturing and eliminating debris accumulated over six decades of low-orbit activities.   The start-up and its consortium were chosen to develop and fly the first-ever mission to capture and remove a disused ESA asset floating in space.  Work begins early next year with the goal…