Check out This Swiss Satellite That Will Be Sent to Collect a Rogue CubeSat

Updated 8.13.15, 5:32 PM EDT by Angelie Hawks

The Clean Space One Project has passed a milestone. The space cleanup satellite will deploy a conical net to capture the small SwissCube satellite before destroying it in the atmosphere. It's one of the solutions being tested for eliminating dangerous debris orbiting the Earth.

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