April 2019
Cleaning up space
... from the newly-developed National In-orbit Servicing Control Centre Facility based at the Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell, UK. The Control Centre is being developed by Astroscale as a key part of the ground segment. The complex ELSA...
18 October 2015
ROOM at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Israel
... and former Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of UN COPUOS Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, Director of the Harwell Oxford Space Cluster Barbara Ghinelli, Head of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office Frank Salzgeber, Director of the...
10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
... including representatives from the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, Catapult – a satellite company based in Harwell and others in the industry. Aimed at supporting the development of science, technological skills and data handling, the...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
... hopes to establish a long-term presence in the UK, and it has started by establishing an office and mission control centre in Harwell earlier this year. “We are very excited to welcome SSTL to the ELSA-d mission and to begin this ambitious...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services and will be operated from the UK at the Satellite Applications Catapult at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. Among the technologies Astroscale hopes to test over the next few months are a non...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... for the development of commercially viable disposal services and other in-orbit services. Astroscale, based at the Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire, UK, was awarded £1.7 million ($1.84 million) to design a satellite servicer that is capable...
