Can magnets and a giant claw save us from space junk?
from the body of a Japanese H-2A rocket hurtled towards the International Space Station (ISS) and its crew at 28 200 km/h. An hour before the projected collision, flight controllers back on Earth powered up the spacecraft’s thrusters and moved it out of the way. That scrap of junk could have punched a hole in the hull of the space station, and it was the station’s third close call in two weeks.
