{"id":56618,"date":"2021-09-22T22:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astroscale-taps-rocket-lab-to-launch-active-debris-removal-mission\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T22:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:35:25","slug":"astroscale-taps-rocket-lab-to-launch-active-debris-removal-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astroscale-taps-rocket-lab-to-launch-active-debris-removal-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Astroscale Taps Rocket Lab to Launch Active Debris Removal Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astroscale<\/strong> has chosen <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> to launch its first active debris removal mission. The company announced Sept. 21 that Rocket Lab will launch Astroscale\u2019s Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) satellite, which has been selected by the <strong>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/strong> (JAXA) for Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project (CRD2). This mission is one of the world\u2019s first technology demonstrations of removing large-scale debris from orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The ADRAS-J satellite will be deployed to a precise orbit by Rocket Lab\u2019s kick stage. ADRAS-J is designed to rendezvous with a piece of orbital debris, an abandoned upper stage rocket body. ADRAS-J aims to demonstrate proximity operations and obtain images of the rocket body, delivering observational data to better understand the debris environment. A planned second phase of the mission, which has yet to be competed, will demonstrate the debris de-orbiting.<\/p>\n<p>The mission was first announced in February 2020 as a project to&nbsp;commercialize space debris removal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRocket Lab and Astroscale have become leaders in our respective markets and I am thrilled to collaborate on ADRAS-J, a groundbreaking mission that will shape the technologies and policies needed to drive space sustainability forward,\u201d said Nobu Okada, founder and CEO of Astroscale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astroscale has chosen Rocket Lab to launch its first active debris removal mission. The company announced Sept. 21 that Rocket Lab will launch Astroscale\u2019s Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) satellite, which has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project (CRD2). This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56619,"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-56618","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\/56618"}],"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=56618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}