Japan’s Space Tether Experiment Partial Success
Credit: HTV-6: NASA
HOUSTON—A Japanese space experiment designed to demonstrate a method of de-orbiting man-made space debris failed to deploy a key test component, according to a Feb. 6 statement from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) spokesman. The experiment involved using electrodynamic tether...
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