29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
...test missions for pioneering space debris firms ClearSpace and Astroscale. The specialist businesses have been awarded contracts totalling...viable disposal services and other in-orbit services. Astroscale, based at the Harwell Space Cluster in ...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... is required on the sub-two centimetre population in order to validate and improve debris modelling. One interesting programme is Astroscale’s IDEA OSG1 small satellite, which will use two Space Debris Monitors supplied by the Japanese Space...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... of the growing confidence in the investment community, which last year invested $150 million into this business. Astroscale is focused on in-orbit servicing, including refuelling satellites, and their revenue model is still some years away from...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... is planned for demonstration for the first time in 2020 during the ELSA-d mission by Astroscale, a Singapore-based start-up. Astroscale is also working with ClearSpace (Switzerland) to increase the technology readiness level of direct capture...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... premium income. This has certainly been the case with satellite servicing technologies, as shown by interest in Astroscale’s ELSA-d debris removal demonstration mission, which was launched to orbit successfully in March 2021. Meanwhile, even...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... the Surrey Space Centre in 2018 and ELSA-d by Astroscale in 2021. ClearSpace and ESA teams test the full-...the global effort to make space more sustainable. Two companies, Astroscale and ClearSpace, were selected in September 2022 to design missions...
