Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
On Closer Inspection
The ADRAS-J spacecraft was selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project (CRD2), one of the world’s first technology demonstrations of removing large-scale debris from orbit. ADRAS-J will demonstrate a safe and secure approach — known as RPO — with an H-IIA rocket 2nd stage launched in January 2009, and will obtain images of and other conditional data (spin rate, spin axis, conditions etc.) about that object, delivering observational information to better understand the space debris environment.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 150.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
Rocket Lab LC-1B, Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand
Stats
2024
34th orbital launch attempt
Rocket Lab
44th mission
2nd mission of 2024
40th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission
Electron
44th mission
2nd mission of 2024
40th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission