Space Junk Cleanup Tether [Updated]

[sherlew99]

Japan to Test Space Junk Cleanup Tether Soon: Report
By by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer

SPACE.com

Japanese scientists are getting ready to launch a test of a space junk-cleaning tether, according to press reports.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) researchers are developing an electrodynamic tether designed to generate electricity that will slow down space-based debris, according to a report from Agence France Presse.

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[pickinduck]

Remember the tether that nasa experimented with. Didn't it end up generating more electricity then they thought and it burned loose?

[sherlew99]

I missed that news story. Hopefully this new one will work better.

[sherlew99]

Well, things didn't go very well the first time out. I think that they should go over what went wrong and try again if it's feasible.


Japan's troubled 'space junk' mission fails

[pickinduck]

It failed to release.
There is an on going ever increasing need to clean up space junk.

[sherlew99]

I saw that, but just saying that it failed to release is rather vague. Why did it fail to release. That's what one would need to look at.

Anyway, someone should be able to come up with something that will work.