{"id":52627,"date":"2023-10-02T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/japanese-government-awards-astroscale-up-to-80m-for-debris-inspection-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T19:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:27:57","slug":"japanese-government-awards-astroscale-up-to-80m-for-debris-inspection-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/japanese-government-awards-astroscale-up-to-80m-for-debris-inspection-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Government Awards Astroscale Up to $80M for Debris Inspection Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese government awarded <b>Astroscale Japan<\/b> an award worth up to $80 million for a debris inspection mission. The award announced Monday is a small business innovation research (SBIR) award from Japan\u2019s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).<\/p>\n<p>Astroscale will develop an on-orbit inspection demonstration mission to image and diagnose a large, defunct satellite in space. The project has three phases and the first phase is worth up to 2.69 billion yen ($18 million). Mission development will begin this month with a maximum term of up to March 2028.<\/p>\n<p>This mission is similar to the upcoming ADRAS-J mission, which is funded by JAXA. In the first phase of ADRAS-J, an Astroscale spacecraft will approach an H-IIA rocket upper stage in space and inspect it.&nbsp; The second phase in a later mission will demonstrate docking to the rocket body and removing it from orbit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both missions will advance Astroscale\u2019s rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) capabilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese government established the SBIR program to promote research and development for Japanese startups and organizations to advance technologies and encourage their implementation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese government awarded Astroscale Japan an award worth up to $80 million for a debris inspection mission. The award announced Monday is a small business innovation research (SBIR) award from Japan\u2019s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Astroscale will develop an on-orbit inspection demonstration mission to image and diagnose a large, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}