15 February 2019
RemoveDEBRIS successfully harpoons target in space
...Aglietti, Director of the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey. While the mission and consortium coordination is led by the Surrey Space Centre (UK), the RemoveDEBRIS consortium consists of leading space companies and research institutions...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... and Innovation Network for Technology (SPRINT) and supported by the FAIR-SPACE Hub, a SPRINT partner at the Surrey Space Centre. The University of Surrey is a well-known innovator in small satellite technologies, while Intelcomm UK has extensive...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
... the experiment went,” said Prof Guglielmo Aglietti, director of the Surrey Space Centre. Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL and Chairman of the Surrey Space Centre, added “RemoveDEBRIS is an exciting and highly innovative mission that...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... mission, a demonstration of ADR capture technologies consisting of a consortium of European industry and coordinated by Surrey Space Centre. The EU and ESA also signed a space strategy deal in 2015 that covered many areas, including the new EU SSA...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... on this changing regulatory climate to commercialise aerodynamically-accelerated de-orbit solutions. One example is the Surrey Space Centre (SSC). In 2018, the SSC was contracted by Spaceflight Industries to provide deployable sails to de-orbit...
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...
