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...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... removal demonstration mission (ELSA-d) in March 2021. Two active debris removal missions are planned for 2025: Clearspace-1 led by ESA and the Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) by JAXA. In parallel, the UK Space Agency has...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
..., we are also very active in active debris removal, being the lead for two subsystems of the ESA ClearSpace-1 mission. Portugal panel presentation at IAC 2022 in Paris. The fourth challenge we identified is called the ‘Santa Maria...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... of projects such as the Athena X-ray telescope, the Lisa space-based gravitational wave observatory, and the Clearspace active removal mission. ESA’s ambitious mission that will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid...
