January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... Policy Institute Master’s programme at George Washington University, their research interests include space sustainability, orbital debris mitigation and ethics in science and technology. Riesbeck also holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Science and...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
...-minded, innovation-driven company seeking to make space business viable for commercial operators. This practical solution to debris mitigation has the potential to provide a cost-effective approach for ensuring the long-term sustainability of the...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... innovation. In 2022, I convened the first global Space Debris Summit in London with The Royal Society and His Majesty...come together with the Government to create a framework of debris mitigation protocols and standards which could be the basis of ...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...2009, in the dual role of platform system engineer and payload interface manager. He is also involved in Space Debris Mitigation, and in particular satellite re-entry risks. Nicolas holds a PhD from Kingston University London, where he was previously...
31 July 2020
Amazon's Kuiper mega constellation gets FCC approval
... 1 centimetre and 128 million objects larger than one millimetre expected to reside in earth orbits, unless space debris mitigation measures are properly implemented by spacecraft designers and missions operators, the problem will only get worse...
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
... is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. SSTL is at the forefront of space debris mitigation and removal activities and is the satellite platform manufacturer and spacecraft operator for the RemoveDEBRIS...
