India launches Switzerland's first satellite...

SwissCube, a satellite designed entirely by engineering students, has been successfully launched from a site in India. It is Switzerland's first home-grown satellite.

The mission of the gift box-sized device is to map airglow, the faint bands of green and mauve light caused when the sun's high-energy radiation collides with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere.

"Mission accomplished," said an emotional Muriel Noca, project coordinator at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). "I can't believe how smoothly it went as so many things can go wrong." More...

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