January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
...-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 the full-scale model of the...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
...old spacecraft from orbit is essential for the sustainable use of space. Professor Yang Gao, Surrey Space Centre, examines an experimental robotic arm that is designed to grab pieces of space debris and pull them out of orbit. What is the fundamental...
