ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 12月1日 07時08分

Mitsunobu Okada wants to be more than an ordinary garbage collector. His vision: to create the first trash collection company dedicated to cleaning up humanity’s hardest-to-reach rubbish. Over the last half-century, space has become so littered with debris, like spent rocket stages and inert satellites, that scientists are concerned that collisions could render low orbit — up to 300 miles above the Earth and essential for communications — unusable. Convinced that national space agencies were dragging their feet addressing the problem, Mitsunobu launched Astroscale, a start-up with the belief that a small private company motivated by profit could tackle debris removal more quickly. “Let’s face it, waste management isn’t sexy enough for a space agency to convince taxpayers to allocate money,” the 43-year-old entrepreneur told @ニューヨーク・タイムズ. “My breakthrough is figuring out how to make this into a business.” The more ambitious step comes in 2018, when Mitsunobu says Astroscale will launch a small satellite to track and intercept space junk and ultimately drag it out of orbit. Both the craft and the debris would burn up on re-entry. Ko Sasaki photographed Mitsunobu holding a model of the Astroscale satellite in Tokyo. #?

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