Japan has a net to clean up garbage

Japan successfully launched a cargo ship carrying a wire-shaped wire capable of changing the trajectory of debris in space.

Japanese space agency JAXA on December 9 successfully launched the HTV6 cargo spacecraft from Tanegashima Space Center. HTV6 is responsible for transporting a large magnetism wire to the International Space Station (ISS) to collect garbage in space, according to UPI.

"The rocket is on schedule. The HTV6 spacecraft has successfully separated after being launched about 15 minutes and 11 seconds," JAXA said.

Japan successfully launched a spacecraft carrying equipment to clean up space garbage.(Photo: AP).

Scientists estimate that about 100 million pieces of space waste are orbiting the Earth. They are mostly small in size. However, even a screw with high speed in space can cause great damage to satellites and space stations.

Japanese equipment is manufactured to address this risk. It was built by JAXA engineers with the help of researchers from a fishing net manufacturing company. This magnetic wire is made from thin stainless steel and aluminum wire combined into a mesh-like device.

Grid wire will be launched into space with the robot arm of the space station. It creates enough force to influence the trajectory of the space debris, diverting them towards the Earth's atmosphere, where the fragments will be burned.