Astroscale spacecraft captures stunning time-lapses of space debris launched in 2009

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J mission completed fly arounds of a Japanese H-IIA rocket upper stage in July 2024. The imagery will be potentially be used for a future mission to remove the debris from orbit. The upper stage was launched in 2009. Credit: | footage courtesy: Astroscale | edited by Steve Spaleta () Music: Through Stormy Weather by Philip Ayers / courtesy of