Space junk is a very real problem. It might sound silly to think that the space around Earth is actually getting too cluttered with junk, but it's true. There are thousands of tons of old spacecraft, defunct satellites, and bits and pieces of manmade trash orbiting our planet, and that material poses some very real risks to future missions, including crewed missions to the Moon, Mars, and perhaps beyond.
Researchers have long conceptualized different systems for dealing with orbiting trash. Proposals have included huge nets and even harpoons to snag the larger pieces of debris and drag them back down to Earth where the heat of reentry would effectively vaporize them. Unfortunately, none of those missions has been a total success, and some have even threatened to create more space junk. Now, a Japanese company is launching a test mission to see whether its space trash collector works as well as it hopes.
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