'It's a bit of a bother. We're getting a lot of inquiries from overseas asking if it's true.'

摘要

Eisuke Aizawa, spokesperson for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), after London's The Telegraph and other newspapers reported erroneously that JAXA and a Japanese fishing net maker had teamed up to make "a giant net several kilometers in size" that would sweep up abandoned satellites and drag them into the atmosphere to burn up. JAXA is exploring creative ways to take down space junk, but a giant fishing net is not among them.