SwissCube-1 is a Swiss satellite operated by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

[10] On 2 December 2011, EPFL ended the SwissCube project and turned over control of the satellite to amateur radio operators.

[11] As of October 2023[update] SwissCube is still operational, after fourteen years in space.

[12] In anticipation of its future "debris" status in light of the slowly degrading lithium-ion batteries, the Clean Space One project was launched in 2012 to provide a spacecraft able to catch SwissCube-1 and remove it from orbit in the 2020 horizon.

The cubesat had 4 operation modes : recovery (not enough power to work), safe (minimum subsystems running), and two standard modes (all subsystems are working nominally).