NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

On Closer Inspection

Launch Time
Sun Feb 18, 2024 14:52 UTC

Rocket

Electron/Curie
Image Credit: Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab
Status: Active
Price: $7.5 million
Liftoff Thrust: 224 kN
Payload to LEO: 320 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 18.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.2 m
Fairing Height: 4.05 m

Mission Details

ADRAS-J

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