{"id":183014,"date":"2024-02-18T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-satellite-designed-to-inspect-space-junk-just-made-it-to-orbit"},"modified":"2024-02-18T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:22:45","slug":"a-satellite-designed-to-inspect-space-junk-just-made-it-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-satellite-designed-to-inspect-space-junk-just-made-it-to-orbit","title":{"rendered":"A satellite designed to inspect space junk just made it to orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-satellite-designed-to-inspect-space-junk-just-made-it-to-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astroscale\u2019s ADRAS-J spacecraft, a demonstration satellite that could inform <a data-i13n=\"elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/theres-no-easy-answer-to-being-a-space-janitor-170011469.html\" data-ylk=\"slk: future space junk cleanup efforts;elm: context_link;elmt: doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">future space junk cleanup efforts<\/a>, is now in orbit after a successful launch from New Zealand on Sunday. The satellite was sent to space atop an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab. Its mission, which was selected by Japan\u2019s space agency (JAXA) for Phase I of the Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration program, will see ADRAS-J rendezvous with an old Japanese rocket upper stage that\u2019s been in orbit since 2009.<\/p>\n<blockquote placeholder data-theme=light class=twitter-tweet><p>There it goes! \ud83d\udef0\ufe0f\ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>ADRAS-J is now in orbit, ready to start its mission of rendezvousing with an aging piece of space debris and observing it closely to determine whether it can be deorbited in future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astroscale\u2019s ADRAS-J spacecraft, a demonstration satellite that could inform future space junk cleanup efforts, is now in orbit after a successful launch from New Zealand on Sunday. The satellite was sent to space atop an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab. Its mission, which was selected by Japan\u2019s space agency (JAXA) for Phase I of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}