China Focus: China develops de-orbiting sail to manage space debris

BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- As the number of rocket launches, planetary missions and satellite activities continues to grow, so does the junkyard in space. Many have been pondering the question of how to reduce the amount of debris orbiting Earth. Now, China may have found a solution with its newly deployed "sail" technology.

Hundreds of millions of items of human-made debris are continually circling Earth, inc