Japan launched a cargo ship on
Friday bound for the International Space Station, carrying a ‘space junk’
collector that was made with the help of a fishnet company. The vessel, dubbed “Kounotori”
(stork in Japanese), blasted off from the southern island of Tanegashima just
before 10:27pm on 9 December local time attached to an H-IIB rocket. Scientists
at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are experimenting with a tether to
pull junk out of orbit around Earth, clearing up tonnes of space clutter
including cast-off equipment from old satellites and pieces of rocket.
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