ADRAS-J | Active Debris Removal by Astroscale - Japan | Concept of Operations

The ADRAS-J mission will be the world’s first attempt to safely approach and characterize an existing piece of large debris through Rendezvous and Proximity Operations and is the start of a full-fledged debris removal service. The ADRAS-J spacecraft was selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s for Phase I of its Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project, one of the world’s first technology demonstrations of removing large-scale debris from orbit. ADRAS-J will demonstrate safe and secure approach — known as RPO — with a client space object and will obtain images of and other data about that object, delivering observational information to better understand the space debris environment. ​ Discover more: