Japan launches 'fishing net' to collect space garbage
Japan on Friday launched a spaceship carrying a 700-metre-long tether to pull some of the space debris from Earth's orbit out into the atmosphere, where it will burn. The tether was made by a 106-year-old fishing net company using aluminium and steel. There are more than 100 million space debris pieces in orbit, moving at 28,000 kmph around the Earth.