12 May 2021
ESA signs contract with Swiss agency to clean space debris
..., and benefiting the space industry as a whole. Our goal is to build affordable and sustainable in-orbit services," said ClearSpace Chief Executive Officer Luc Piguet. In light of the growing dependency upon satellite-based services in developing and...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... to address our future active debris removal needs. About the author Romain Buchs is a Space Policy Analyst at ClearSpace where he coordinates strategic policy initiatives to make space activities safer and more sustainable and supports licensing...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
...fast as they did. The European Space Agency’s Clearspace-1, the first ever robotic satellite capture and disposal mission...: the future of space exploration depends on it. ESA’s ClearSpace-1 will target the conical upper part of payload adapters such...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... real test missions for pioneering space debris firms ClearSpace and Astroscale. The specialist businesses have been awarded...to leading efforts to make space more sustainable.” The ClearSpace CLEAR mission will remove two derelict UK objects from a...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... a net capturing mechanism, a drag sail and a vision-based navigation system in orbit. The ClearSpace-1 mission, commissioned by ESA and led by Swiss start-up ClearSpace, will be the first space mission to actually remove a debris item from orbit...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
...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 in the Sunrise Project, co-initiated by OneWeb and...
