Japanese space-sustainability company Astroscale just inked a $90 million deal to take a bus-sized rocket stage out of orbit by the end of the decade.
The pioneering project, funded by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is a continuation of Astroscale's ADRAS-J mission, which recently completed an up-close orbital inspection of a 12-year-old upper stage of a Japanese H-2A rocket.
