ADRAS-J Achieves Technical Milestone

Closes to Within Several Hundred Meters of Target Space Debris

Apr 25, 2024

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The Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) commercial debris inspection demonstration satellite has achieved its next technical milestone: the successful safe and controlled approach to an unprepared space debris object to a relative distance of several hundred meters. Additionally, ADRAS-J successfully demonstrated close approach rendezvou…

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