Japanese Space Agency Caught Piece Of Space Junk *This Big*

The problem of space junk is being dealt with in a novel way by Japanese space agency JAXA, which plans to rope up loads of the broken old stuff from the 1960s in an old-fashioned, analogue, traditional net several kilometres wide.

The triple-layered metal thread net will then be burned up in the atmosphere once full, freeing up room for more television satellites. [Inhabitat]