Astroscale's ADRAS-J Navigates Space Junk
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Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk

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Japanese company Astroscale is the first spacecraft to approach a piece of space junk in low- Earth orbit.
Astroscale's ADRAS-J mission flew as close as 50 meters ( 164 feet ) from the derelict H-IIA rocket.
It's one of about 2,000 spent rocket bodies circling Earth and one of more than 45,000 objects in orbit tracked by US Space Command .
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