Astroscale is a 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair winner for developing a satellite designed to rendezvous with space junk, with the goal of capturing it and guiding it toward a fiery grave in Earth’s atmosphere.
The question
Can the space industry develop new technologies that help tackle the growing problem of debris and create a more sustainable orbital environment?
The results
On February 18, 2024, Astroscale launched its ADRAS-J (Active Debris Removal by…








