Japanese the van started to experiment on cleaning space junk – news Samara

At the end of the working week at 18.46 GMT from the International space station was disconnected, the Japanese cargo ship “Stork” 700-foot “tail”rope””.

on 13 December of the previous year, the unit arrived on the ISS, and at the moment undocked and preparing for a two-week experiment of cleaning of space debris. Cylinder during the passage of the dense layers of the atmosphere must burn.

Rehearsal the first cleaning space debris began today, Friday, at 18.46 UTC. Then it will be energized at the 700-metre cord.

As you know, since the launch of Earth’s first artificial objects, it has accumulated tens of thousands of fragments of exhaust and emergency spacecraft.

Users of microblogging network Twitter responded to a report that the Japanese professionals began to first experiment the cleaning space debris from Earth’s orbit. We will remind, before the same international space station was forced to conduct evasive maneuvers from the meeting with the cloud of fragments of satellites and parts of rockets. If all goes as planned, and a prototype of the debris will burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere, in the future, “tailed” vans, the Japanese will clean the orbit from debris frequently.