Astroscale is a public, on-orbit servicing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, committed to the safe and sustainable development of space. As the first private company dedicated to in-orbit servicing across all orbits, Astroscale develops innovative solutions for end-of-life services, active debris removal, in-situ space situational awareness, and life extension of satellites. They work with government and commercial stakeholders like JAXA, U.S. Space Force, ESA, and OneWeb to develop norms and technologies for responsible space operations, aiming to mitigate the growing hazard of space debris.
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Astroscale Japan launched the ADRAS-J satellite from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand on 2024-02-18 at 2:52 pm UTC.
Electron deployed the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) satellite for Astroscale Japan Inc.
Astroscale completed mission operations for the ELSA-d servicer and client spacecraft on 2024-01-24.
ADRAS-J is Astroscale’s second mission after the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission launched in 2021.
Astroscale’s full ADRAS-J mission is planned to take between three and six months to complete.
Rocket Lab received the final perigee, apogee, and inclination targets from Astroscale 20 days before launch.
Rocket Lab received final perigee, apogee, and inclination values from Astroscale 20 days before launch.
ADRAS-J was shipped from Astroscale Japan’s headquarters in Tokyo in October 2023 for final launch preparations at Rocket Lab’s facilities.
Astroscale Japan will launch the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) satellite on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand on 2024-02-18 UTC (2024-02-19 NZDT).
Astroscale designed ADRAS-J to test technologies and operations for approaching and monitoring debris objects and to deliver data to assist in debris removal.
Rocket Lab received the final perigee, apogee, and inclination targets from Astroscale 20 days before the launch.
Astroscale envisions deploying the LEXI client vehicle in geostationary orbit about 300 km below Orbit Fab’s fueling depot orbit.
Under the private-public partnership agreement, the refueling project will receive an additional $12,000,000 in funding from Astroscale and its suppliers.
Astroscale plans to deliver the APS-R by 2026.
Astroscale won a $25,500,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop a refueling vehicle.
Astroscale is developing an in-space refueling vehicle that will shuttle between a fuel depot in geostationary Earth orbit and a client satellite.
Astroscale announced plans to launch LEXI in 2026.
Astroscale has raised more than $376,000,000 in funding, including a $76,000,000 Series G round in February.
NASA received eight responses to the December request for information, including one from satellite servicing company Astroscale in partnership with in-space transportation company Momentus, and was evaluating them with no timeline for completing the review.
Astroscale France established Toulouse as its permanent location on 2023-10-19 to develop on-orbit servicing technologies.