There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...

The catchily-named Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan mission (ADRAS-J for short) launched a spacecraft to a derelict upper stage from a Japanese H-IIA rocket. The craft lineup up the old ...

Astroscale, a company focused on removing space debris, launched the ADRAS-J mission to test its technology by approaching a discarded rocket stage. ADRAS-J stands for Active Debris Removal by ...

ADRAS-J is a small satellite that will attempt to catch a defunct upper state of a Japanese H-IIA rocket, which has been spinning through Earth orbit since 2009. The maneuvers required to put ...

Then it got real. The H-IIA lit up the black of night, bright and beautiful. It was so bright I couldn’t see the rocket at all at first, but then it was rising up and up and up — the rumble reached us ...

The H3 rocket, which carried the new navigation satellite, is an upgraded version of Japan’s H-IIA rocket, which has been used for a variety of missions over the past two decades. The new design is ...

Japan’s new and lower-cost flagship H-3 rocket delivered its payload after a successful launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on July 1. The Earth-observation ...

Bleecker Street Research warned this morning that Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket may not achieve its mid-2025 launch-date target. Bleecker warns that a mid-2026 or even mid-2027 launch is more likely.