Japan’s space agency, JAXA successfully launched a spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS), carrying a large magnetic space junk collector to divert the space junk toward Earth’s atmosphere.

• More than 5 decades of human space exploration since the first Soviet-launched Sputnik satellite in 1957 has produced this hazardous belt of orbiting debris in the space.
• There are estimated to be more than 100 million pieces are circling our planet in the lower orbit, posing a growing threat to future space exploration.