"Humanity Launches Historic Mission to Remove Dead Rocket from Earth's Orbit"
For the first time, a private company, Astroscale-Japan, has launched a mission called Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) to remove a dead rocket the size of a bus and weighing 3 tons from Earth's low-Earth orbit. The spacecraft aims to reach and characterize the unprepared space junk, demonstrating the possibility of approaching and holding at a fixed distance from the target. If successful, this mission could pave the way for future space debris removal and on-orbit servicing of satellites.