On Closer Inspection

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

14:52:00

Sunday February 18, 2024

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ADRAS-J

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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. ​

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

150 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Electron/Curie

Active Since 2018


Price

$7.50 million

Rocket

Height: 18m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 320 kg

Liftoff Thrust

224 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 1.2m

Height: 4.05m

Stages

3

Launch Site

Rocket Lab LC-1B

Māhia Peninsula, New Zealand

Fastest Turnaround

8 days 20 hours

Stats

Electron


44th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2024

Rocket Lab


44th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2024

2024


34th

Orbital launch attempt