{"id":183069,"date":"2024-02-19T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/rocket-lab-astroscale-launch-historic-mission-to-monitor-space-junk"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:41:14","slug":"rocket-lab-astroscale-launch-historic-mission-to-monitor-space-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/rocket-lab-astroscale-launch-historic-mission-to-monitor-space-junk","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab, Astroscale launch historic mission to monitor space junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dcuZMP1m_g8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ADRAS-J satellite, which weighs 150 kilograms (330 pounds), lifted off on top of an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab\u2019s launch site in New Zealand at 9:52 am EST (1452 GMT; 3:52 am local New Zealand time on February 19).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Lift-off for #OnCloserInspection! ADRAS-J is on its way to orbit. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLab\/status\/1759229664386834611\/photo\/1\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/1cu9BI7BBp\">pic.twitter.com\/1cu9BI7BBp<\/a> <\/a>\u2014 Rocket Lab (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLab\">@RocketLab<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLab\/status\/1759229664386834611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Astroscale Japan was tasked by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to lead Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration program, which involved designing, manufacturing, testing, launching, and operating the ADRAS-J spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ADRAS-J satellite, which weighs 150 kilograms (330 pounds), lifted off on top of an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab\u2019s launch site in New Zealand at 9:52 am EST (1452 GMT; 3:52 am local New Zealand time on February 19). Lift-off for #OnCloserInspection! ADRAS-J is on its way to orbit. pic.twitter.com\/1cu9BI7BBp \u2014 Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183069","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}