Image produced by computer representing space debris orbiting the Earth

The device seems straight out of a science fiction film. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has announced it will test in February a magnetic net for capturing space debris orbiting the Earth.

Once deployed, the net resembling those used by fishermen collect for a year the various objects that pollute space, attracting those metallic in nature.

It will then be towed to the Earth's atmosphere, where the debris will be disintegrated.

"We are working on this project for five years and are very excited," welcomed the project leader, Koji Ozaki.

The number of waste (mostly from satellites and rockets) in orbit around the Earth is estimated at nearly 100 million. 22,000 of them would measure more than 10 cm, and are regarded as dangerous for the spacecraft.

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