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Japan takes the lead in cleaning up orbiting space junk dw.com 6 hrs ago Julian Ryall (Tokyo) As many as 900,000 hazardous pieces of space junk are presently circling around the Earth. Japanese companies are testing innovative solutions to eradicate the threat. © picture-alliance/dpa/ESA Space agencies around the world are developing satellites to get rid of space junk Fragments of man-made debris are currently orbiting the Earth at speeds of up to 8 kilometers per second, posing a serious hazard to satellites and even manned spacecraft, such as the International Space St...

Cleaning up cosmic litter On March 22, Astroscale launched its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale (ELSA-d) demonstration craft on a Soyuz rocket that took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is the first commercial mission "to prove the core technologies necessary for space debris," Okada said.  How does the clean up work? ELSA-d is made of two satellites that have been stacked atop each other, a 175-kilogram (385-pound) servicer satellite and a client satellite that weighs 17 kilograms. The servicer vehicle is equipped with proximity rendezvous technologies and a magnetic do...