Japan set a net to clean up the unsuccessful space garbage

According to The Guardian, Japan 's Earth - Orb garbage - removal test on February 6 ended in failure, a specially designed Japanese magnetic grid to remove space junk could not use. .

There are more than 100 million objects called space junk around the Earth, including damaged space equipment from old satellites and missile debris. Experts say these types of space junk can pose a risk to future space exploration.

Simulation image of "magnetic grid" used to clean Japanese space junk.(Photo: JAXA).

Recently, scientists at the Japan Space Exploration Agency (Jaxa) have opened a mission to test "magnetic mesh" to clean up space junk. The device is 700m long, supported by a company specializing in manufacturing fishing nets. This grid-shaped magnetic wire was successfully transported by the self-propelled cargo ship HTV (also known as Kounotori-6) to the international space station (ISS) in December 2016.

Scientists who calculate the device will have strong magnetic field forces, changing the trajectory of space junk pieces. The fragments are diverted closer to the atmosphere. After that, the space garbage "slipped into the net" will be destroyed by the atmosphere without threatening the Earth. Kounotori-6 is programmed to self-extract net and collect garbage after leaving ISS on January 27 to set down on Earth. However, technical problems have prevented this system from receiving commands from Jaxa and the grid is not deployed.

"We believe that this magnetic mesh wire has not worked. This is really a great disappointment when we do not achieve this important goal" - project leader Koichi Inoue, said. This is Jaxa's latest failure. a few weeks ago the agency canceled the mission to launch a satellite into orbit with a mini rocket.