The ADRAS-J spacecraft, acting like a garbage truck in orbit, just finished getting close to a rocket that's been floating around since 2009.
The ADRAS-J spacecraft, acting like a garbage truck in orbit, just finished getting close to a rocket that’s been floating around since 2009.
Leveraging limited ground-based observations, Astroscale’s operations teams in Japan and the UK maneuvered ADRAS-J within a few hundred kilometers of the rocket’s upper stage successfully. As the company further explains, fitted with a range of onboard rendezvous payload sensors, ADRAS-J safely approaches its targets, gathering essential relative navigation data like distance and attitude.
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