Japan pioneers space junk kamikaze satellites.

CLEANING UP SPACE GARBAGE:

The Japanese may have a solution for some of the orbital space debris or ‘space junk’. According to JAXA, a small micro satellite will latch onto a piece of space junk then move to a lower orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.

No word yet whether the United States is interested in this system or will create its own.

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~ by spacecleaner on April 19, 2009.

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Tags: Japanese, JAXA, space junk

2 Responses to “Japan pioneers space junk kamikaze satellites.”

We could really use something like this to prevent junk collisions in space!

smazely said this on May 1, 2009 at 10:39 pm | Reply
- If you like that, you’ll really like this video:
  
  deb.ris.mom said this on May 1, 2009 at 11:37 pm | Reply