A new Swiss-based company said Thursday it would offer low-cost satellite launches which it claims could be a quarter of current market rates. Swiss Space Systems-S3 said its goal was to offer launches for 10 million Swiss francs (8.1 million euros, $10.5 million) using unmanned suborbital spaceplanes that could carry…
Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday announced plans to shed 3,500 jobs in order to make savings of some 2 billion Swiss francs (1.8 billion euros, $2.5 billion). UBS aims to make the personnel cuts “through redundancies as well as natural attrition”, the bank said in a statement.…