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’s move to the Zeus facility increased its space by 900% to approximately 20,000 square feet.
Astroscale Ltd., based at the Harwell Space Cluster in Oxfordshire, was awarded £1.7 million by the UK Space Agency to design a satellite servicer capable of removing multiple retired or defunct satellites in a single mission.
ClearSpace and Astroscale have been awarded a combined £4 million from the UK Space Agency to design missions to remove existing pieces of space debris.
Astroscale demonstrated magnetic capture and Remote Proximity Operations capability in orbit during the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) satellite mission launched in 2021.
Astroscale received £1.7 million in Phase B funding to develop the COSMIC mission.
The UK Space Agency shortlisted groups led by Astroscale and ClearSpace for a mission to remove two spacecraft from low Earth orbit on 2023-09-26.
Astroscale is advancing End-of-Life services that were recently tested during the ELSA-d mission, which magnetically captured its demonstration client spacecraft in August 2021.
MDA UK is partnered with Astroscale to provide capture robotics expertise and robotic operations experience.
The UK Space Agency provided £1.7 million in funding to Astroscale Ltd. to continue developing technology and capability to remove defunct satellites from Low Earth Orbit.
NorthStar Earth & Space and Astroscale formed a strategic partnership at the International Astronautical Congress 2022 to further support space sustainability.
Astroscale UK selected AAC Clyde Space in May 2021 to co-engineer a satellite platform for End-of-Life Services by Astroscale Multi-mission (ELSA-M).
ELSA-M will incorporate lessons from the ELSA-d in-orbit demonstration in 2021–2022 that tested Astroscale’s magnetic capture system, rendezvous and proximity operations, and on-board systems.
AAC Clyde Space won a 0.94 MGBP (approximately 11.6 MSEK) order from Astroscale Ltd. for a Starbuck power system.
Astroscale tested its ELSA-d mission in August 2021 and successfully magnetically captured its demonstration client spacecraft.
NorthStar Earth & Space and Astroscale formed a strategic partnership at the 2022 International Astronautical Congress in Paris on 2022-09-20 to support space sustainability by combining NorthStar’s space-based resident space object tracking with Astroscale’s spacecraft navigation and capture capability for on-orbit servicing.
Astroscale's ADRAS-J is scheduled to launch in 2023.
Astroscale's ELSA-M is scheduled to launch in 2024.
Orbit Fab will work with servicing vehicles from companies such as Astroscale and Northrop Grumman to refuel legacy GEO satellites.
MDA’s U.K. unit partnered with debris removal startup Astroscale to study the feasibility of a UK Space Agency-funded mission to remove two satellites from low Earth orbit by 2025.
The United Kingdom awarded three feasibility study contracts last year with a combined value of £1 million to consortia led by Astroscale, ClearSpace, and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.