24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
...guidance and standards published by groups such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). "This unique...
16 October 2019
Astroscale takes next step toward launch of world’s first commercial active debris removal mission
...Founder and CEO. “ELSA-d is an important step in proving the technology necessary to mitigate the threat from space debris, but it is only one aspect of what Astroscale is doing to solve this issue. In addition to developing groundbreaking technology...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
...’ worth of studies, reports, papers and conferences on the subject. In those 40 years, the biggest investment in response to the space debris issue, by an order of magnitude, has been the 2013 film Gravity, a film whose grasp of the reality of the...
05 November 2018
Astroscale secures $50 million to clean low Earth orbit
... raised in this round will allow Astroscale to successfully achieve these exciting goals. Approximately 750,000 pieces of space debris over one centimeter in diameter are orbiting the Earth, threatening the safety of active spacecraft. Given this...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
...elite public and private sector resources in the absence of any major government-funded initiative for space debris. In Australia, excellent space debris research outcomes had emerged over 20 years from a series of PPP between government and industry...
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
...thank SSTL for the commitment to ELSA-d and for working together to address the ongoing buildup of hazardous space debris in low Earth orbit.” ELSA-d is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. SSTL is at the...
