First cleaning space debris will begin today in space. On Friday 18.46 Moscow time from the International space station was disconnected, the Japanese cargo ship “Stork” 700-foot “tail”-a rope. This fixture will provide space and cleaning.
Japanese unmanned cargo ship “Kounotori-6″ (jap. “AIST-6″) has received a new task in space. The Japanese aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) reported that the ship successfully undocked from the International space station, where he arrived in December of last year and started to experiment on removing space debris from orbit of the planet, reports Joinfo.ua with reference to TASS.
soon the ship will sink to 20 km and released into orbit cylindrical body weighing about 20 kg, which will simulate space debris. After this 700-foot wire, which helped develop the manufacturers of fishing nets from the Japanese Prefecture of Hiroshima, it will be energized. Created electromagnetic field, as planned by the scientists, should slow down the object and bring it into the dense layers of the atmosphere where it will burn.
According to the information prepared for Pointmedia journalist Georgy Poltavchuk, the experiment will last about a week, and already on 6 February, “Kounotori-6″ he will enter the dense layers of the atmosphere. If the test is successful, JAXA intends to use such devices for cleaning orbits at altitudes of 800 to 1400 km, where the debris is especially a lot.
According to estimates by UN experts, our world rotates about 300 thousand different unused artificial objects weighing up to 5000 tons. In JAXA had calculated that among them there are about 18 thousand objects with a diameter up to 10 cm
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