An Italian experiment to observe
meteors and space debris is set to start on the International
Space Station (ISS) at 19:00 Italian time on Monday.
The experiment features the use of a telescope, the
Mini-Euso, which will capture images all night after being
installed by Russian astronauts Oleg Skripočka and Aleksandr
Skvorcov.
It is the result of a collaboration between Italian Space
Agency ASI, Russian Space agency Roscosmo, the Italian national
Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Rome's Tor Vergata
University.
"The experiment will be installed on the transparent window
of the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station
and it will be pointed towards Earth," Giovanni Valentini, the
head of ASI resources on the ISS, told ANSA.
"It will take images all night and tomorrow morning it will
be turned off. It will be installed again in the next session,
scheduled for October 19".
The experiment could pave the way for a system to remove
space debris by lasers.
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