24 June 2022
UK to lead review of space legislation and financial support for debris removal
... (OSAM) market. “We need to act now to create a world class commercial and regulatory environment for operators and on-orbit servicing companies to thrive over the next decade.” Founded in 2013, Astroscale is the first private company with a vision...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... trillion dollars and assume all sorts of leading-edge developments, such as in-orbit servicing and manufacturing, habitats and the development of an in-orbit economy, even extending to other planetary bodies and extracting resources from asteroids...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... underwriting decisions and premium requirements for satellites with such features. The down-side of on-orbit servicing Whilst the benefits of on-orbit servicing are clear, and the technology goals attainable, there are other challenges that have...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... challenging but ultimately with lucrative potential. In this new, commercial and competitive regime the most successful in-orbit servicing technologies will be those that are most widely applicable to candidate spacecraft, and those that are the...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... Centre National Facility (IOCC); a facility the company says is the first mission control centre dedicated to in-orbit servicing. “In-orbit servicing and manufacturing capabilities are fundamental to long term space sustainability. Without effective...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... and both non-tumbling and tumbling capture. ELSA-d will be operated 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...
