April 2019
Cleaning up space
... and both non-tumbling and tumbling capture. ELSA-d will be operated from the newly-developed National In-orbit Servicing Control Centre Facility based at the Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell, UK. The Control Centre is being developed...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... for small launch, from upstream payload manufacture, launch and in-orbit services to downstream data capture, analysis and distribution. The UK has previously attracted Virgin Orbit for horizontal launch and the addition of Astraius underscores the...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
... the capability to dock and refill, these vehicles will be able to provide a new range of applications, broadly known as in-orbit servicing. Advanced software tools are helping us to weigh the pros and the cons for each mobility solution...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
...a few kilometres of an expended rocket body. Concepts are also being developed using sensors for inspection of spacecraft. On-orbit servicing, including autonomous docking, was demonstrated by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... technology building blocks, is planned as a catalyst for the development of commercially viable disposal services and other in-orbit services. Astroscale, based at the Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire, UK, was awarded £1.7 million ($1.84 million...
17 September 2018
IAI and Effective Space in technological and financial cooperation
... design. Effective Space is developing a unique, small spacecraft to extend the life of satellites in orbit, based on the vision to provide logistics services in the rapidly growing space economy. To this end, it has developed a unique and patented...
