Astroscale lines up spacecraft with debris in test of future debris removal operations.
Credit: Astroscale
Astroscale’s Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) approached to within about 15 m of an orbiting derelict Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA upper-stage rocket body. The rendezvous and proximity operation was the “closest approach ever achieved by a commercial company to space debris,”...
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