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    Japan's space junk collection experiment ends in failure

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    02.06.2017

    Well that's disappointing. On January 27th, Japan's space agency (JAXA) successfully launched the Kounotori 6 spacecraft to the ISS. It was supposed to test a novel method of dragging space debris out of orbit however a technical issue prevented the spacecraft from carrying out that test before its fiery death in Earth's atmosphere on Monday morning.