ADRAS-J beside H-2A F15 Stage 2
A satellite of Astroscale Japan Inc. came up beside a rocket stage of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Launch Services), 0.015 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 2 public reports other than Orbinauts name these two.
From the public record
- From
- Feb 18, 2024
- no source states the end
- Closest stated
- 0.015 km
- Nov 30, 2024
- Orbit
- LEO
- low Earth orbit
The one it came up to
H-2A F15 Stage 2
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Launch Services), J
33500 · 2009-002J · launched Jan 23, 2009
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- from Feb 18, 2024
- Same planeFeb 18, 2024
- launched 18 February 2024 14:52 UTC into the stage's plane
- BesideApr 17, 2024
- within several hundred metres on 17 April 2024; fixed-point hold at 50 m on 23 May 2024
- Closest statedNov 30, 2024
- 15 m approach on 30 November 2024
The detector was not yet running: it reads low Earth orbit since April 2026 and the geostationary belt since October 2026.
Reported elsewhere
Who else said these two were together, earliest first.
| Said on | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2024 | Operator | Astroscale, "Historic approach to space debris: Astroscale's ADRAS-J closes in by 50 meters", 14 June 2024 |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Operator | Astroscale, "Astroscale's ADRAS-J achieves historic 15-meter approach to space debris", 11 December 2024 |