March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... Clean Space initiative was founded. It is organised along four branches: eco-design, green technologies, space debris mitigation, and active space debris removal. The iconic Earthrise image taken by the crew of Apollo 8 as they rounded the fared...
25 November 2021
Astroscale secures multi-million dollar investment from Seraphim
... bodies have started to place stricter requirements on operators. In addition, several government funded awards that support debris mitigation are underway including a public-private partnership led by the European Space Agency (ESA) and OneWeb, with...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... of active satellites. The growing space debris population has also increased the chances of debris-on-debris collisions, which can generate even more threatening debris. Only France has adopted debris mitigation guidelines into law The bulk of these...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... and Sustainability of Outer Space, UN Doc A/AC.105/C.1/2012/CRP.16 (2012). 2 IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines, Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, IADC- 02-04, 2002; revised 2007. 3 MA Skinner, et al, “Hazards at GEO: The Space...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... with good major collision avoidance operations and post-operation debris mitigation strategies, including de-orbit capabilities, small debris strikes are going to grow, probably creating more debris. It looks like the problem will accelerate and may...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... could increase, resulting in an increased risk of collision. Preventing space debris is the most cost-effective and successful way of managing it. Although space debris mitigation might prove costly, a failure to ensure it runs the risk of service...
