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© 2017 AFPJapan's troubled 'space junk' mission ends in failure
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Goodlucktoyou
So we didn't catch any North Korean satilites?
jimbly
Excuse me, this satellite was experimental, it was sent up to see if it could be done. Saying it's a 'latest failure' is just being overly negative, more tests and experiments need to be done to perfect it. Just look at Space X trialing their reusable rocket, how many failures and explosions have they had? Chalk it up and move on.
MsDelicious
How about a giant magnet for at least the steel components? Or a giant fan?
Wakarimasen
We have managed to decimate the ocean creatures using nets and harpoons. surely some sort of space net or harpoon would be more effective than this long line?
billyshears
"Failure" could seem overly critical, but the fact is JAXA has a long history of failed efforts going back a long time. Considering the huge amount of public money they have often wasted, there are those who might be tempted to question whether or not incompetence is involved.
TokyoSince1983
Since it's Japan, maybe one of those folding fans?
smithinjapan
Not a great record of late for JAXA, with the aborted launch of the rocket the other day and the whopping price tag on that satellite a year or so ago.
Kokuzi
MsDelicious... umm... space is basically a vacuum, so fans don't really work all that well up there. But I'm your giant fan, so don't worry about it!
kwatt
It seems a good try at least. Hope JAXA keep trying it until succeeded as others seem to not even try to think to clean space.
tinawatanabe
Could be because of cyber attacks.
Poor English Speaker
What's been happening since last year? From the amateur point of view, JAXA has failured some missions such as smaller rocket one after another since then. Space exploration project is on of Japanese fortes, so less failure outcomes are needed. Otherwise, high reliability established for tens of years could be lost by itself. I don't want JAXA to be like that.
katsu78
Space is hard. For those of us isolated from the challenge it's easy to forget just how monumentally difficult it is to get something off the planet and do... anything.
It's not the sort of area for people who give up after a failure. But it's even less the sort of area for the sneering people in the peanut gallery who never tried to be a part of anything half so difficult but still condescend to those who do.
Gobshite
Couldn't possibly be a more apt headline
Robert Chase
I agree it was a valiant effort not a failure. No one else is even trying to fix a growing problem. For the moment the odds are still long that you will be lulled by failing and falling soviet era space junk but every day those odds get bigger eh?
puregaijin
Haha nice one. But there's no air/atmosphere remember?
Well, as Jimbly pointed out this was an experimental mission. They should get marks for intent and effort.