Two years packed with interesting space projects
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Now available online, “Space Research 2012-2014”, the new brochure of the Swiss Academy of Sciences, shows how healthy and wealthy space activities are in Switzerland.
Read about the latest findings in astrophysics, satellite projects, comet and planet observations, and new technologies in remote sensing. As shown in “Space Research 2012-2014”, the latest brochure of Swiss Academy of sciences, Swiss research in the field of space is broad, diverse and rich.
The majority of these activities are related to projects of the European Space Agency (ESA). This is the case of the Swiss satellite CHEOPS, which was selected as ESA’s first science program in small missions. Led by the University of Bern, the satellite will be in charge of determining the radii of exoplanets with ultra-high precision photometry measurements of exoplanetary transits. Another example of a significant ESA project is ROSINA (Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Analysis), a highly sophisticated Swiss tool embarked on the probe Rosetta which is now orbiting the comet Churi.
The brochure also makes room for a number of EPFL and Swiss Space Center projects, such as the nanosatellite CubETH, developed in collaboration with ETHZ and dedicated to calculating orbits with a precision that has not yet been obtained. The clean-mE program is also presented, along with its main tool, the satellite project Clean Space One, which is intended to demonstrate a solution to the proliferation of space debris in the low earth orbit.
The brochure can be downloaded on the Swiss Academy of Sciences: http://spaceresearch.scnatweb.ch/publications.html