September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...-of-life services’ has emerged with the launch of the world’s first commercial debris removal demonstration mission (ELSA-d) in March 2021. Two active debris removal missions are planned for 2025: Clearspace-1 led by ESA and...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... harpoons. Astroscale has chosen a magnetic capture method, which it will test on its first technology demonstration mission. ELSA-d will be the first mission to demonstrate the core technologies necessary for rendezvous, debris capture and removal...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... proved its magnetic capture and RPO capability in-orbit during the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) satellite mission launched in 2021. The COSMIC servicer will be a technological progression of Astroscale’s Sunrise program...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... on the horizon, some of which are being developed to remove failed satellites from orbit. For example, Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission, to be launched in March 2021, will be the first commercial mission to demonstrate the core technologies necessary for...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... income. This has certainly been the case with satellite servicing technologies, as shown by interest in Astroscale’s ELSA-d debris removal demonstration mission, which was launched to orbit successfully in March 2021. Meanwhile, even the stalwart...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... day of the landing, one-and-a-half decades later, led the operations, Andrea Accomazzo, Sylvain Lodiot, Elsa Montagnon, Ignacio Tanco, had been hired between 1999 and 2001. They had grown over the...
