Japan’s high-tech space junk collector might already be broken

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Flying into space is inherently dangerous, but mankind has gradually made it even more hazardous by filling Earth's orbit with millions of pieces of random garbage. Japan decided to do something about that, and built a high-tech, junk-grabbing tether into the cargo ship it launched last month. Now, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) believes something went wrong, and the tether might never get the chance to perform its important duty.

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