April 2019
The changing economics of space
...considered as routine and a valuable environmental instrument to maintain a sustainable space service operating environment. RemoveDebris satellite launch from the International Space Station in 2018. Business considerations Despite alternatives that...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... Space Operations Centre (ESOC). European Union - The EU (via the European Commission) fully funded the RemoveDebris mission, a demonstration of ADR capture technologies consisting of a consortium of European industry and coordinated by Surrey Space...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... noting that only a few ADR technology demonstration missions have been carried out to date; they include RemoveDebris which tested a harpoon and a net capturing mechanism, a drag sail and a vision-based navigation system in orbit...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
.... As a result, some early-stage demonstration missions have been flown in the past few years, including the RemoveDEBRIS mission by the Surrey Space Centre in 2018 and ELSA-d by Astroscale in 2021. ClearSpace and ESA teams test...
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
... mitigation and removal activities and is the satellite platform manufacturer and spacecraft operator for the RemoveDEBRIS mission, which concluded a series of debris retrieval demonstrations in January 2019. Sir Martin Sweeting, SSTL’s Executive...
