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The Japanese space junk cleaner is hunting a key target

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The space debris cleanup mission launched by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully tracked down one of its targets. During the Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration, Japan’s Astroscale partnered with JAXA to launch a satellite called ADRAS-J that will demonstrate the capabilities needed to remove space debris from orbit. Last Friday, the two entities … Read more

Eccentric man turns his Henry the Hoover vacuum cleaner into a mini motorcycle, but finds it still handles ‘corners’ as poorly as a vacuum cleaner

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Systems engineer Allan Gallop, 35, (pictured) from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, worked with a team of enthusiasts

An eccentric engineer has converted a Henry Hoover vacuum cleaner into a mini motorcycle, but he admits it doesn’t handle corners well. Systems engineer Allan Gallop, 35, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, worked with a team of enthusiasts to fit the broken device with a two-stroke 50cc engine, handlebars and new wheels. Now the updated machine … Read more