Abandoned rocket in orbit weighing 3 tons with a large plan: it saw a "garbage" probe (video)

The spacecraft has not found any damage to the 15-year-old launch vehicle, and these are very good news. The Adras-J Japanese company Astroscale has taken new photos of the 11-meter upper stage of the H-2A carrier weighing 3 tons, which has been circling in orbit for 15 years. This time, he managed to fly a fragment of space debris and make images from different angles. As a result, Adras-J found damage on the rocket, which means that it can be removed from the orbit in a few years, Space writes.

In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Adras-j spacecraft studies the rocket fragment since February this year. The new pictures taken in July from a close distance can see the upper stage of the H-2A rocket from different angles that circles around the Earth. The device was able to fly a fragment of space debris 2 times and these pictures also became the basis for a video from Astroscale.

According to representatives of the Japanese company, their probe, which tests the technology of studying and removing space debris from the orbit, has reached an important stage. He was able to approach the stage of the rocket safely at a distance of about 50 meters and examine the condition of a large fragment of space debris. Space debris is becoming an increasingly serious problem. Experts believe that more than 40,000 fragments more than 10 cm in size rotate around the Earth.

There are millions of smaller fragments with them in orbit. They all move at a speed of several kilometers per second and pose a danger to the current satellites, as well as to the International Space Station. Therefore, space agencies are trying to find solutions to remove the most dangerous debris from orbit. The Japanese Aerospace Research Agency has chosen Astroscale in order for its probe to remove the H-2A rocket from the orbit with a robotic manipulator.

New pictures help you better prepare for the future Adras-J2 mission, which will be removed from orbit. The fragments of the rocket fragments by the Adras-J apparatus have confirmed that the H-2A useful load adapter should be grasped by the robotic ADRAS-J2 manipulator, not damaged. This means that the removal of a rocket from orbit can be successful. According to Astroscale representatives, non -working objects in orbit were not created in order to be removed from there.

Therefore, this complicates the mission from their descent into the Earth's atmosphere. The Adras-J2 apparatus one of the first in history will try to remove a rocket fragment from orbit in 2027. As the focus has already wrote, animals disappear on the ground and scientists want to save them in space at a distance of almost 400,000 km. The authors of the study propose a project to rescue endangered species by freezing.