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 launched the ELSA-d mission in March 2021 to validate technologies for rendezvous, proximity operations, and spacecraft capture.
Astroscale plans to advance commercial solutions for low Earth orbit satellite operators to remove defunct or failing LEO satellites through its ELSA-M servicers from 2024.
Kumar Singarajah, Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs at Astroscale Ltd., joined a panel titled Final frontier, final hide-and-seek: Developing capacities for outer space monitoring and operations to discuss Space Situational Awareness and on-orbit servicing.
The Astroscale Mission Operations team completed the first ELSA-d test capture in August 2021 and is planning progressively more complex capture scenarios.
Astroscale plans to provide commercial life-extension services for geostationary orbit satellite operators from 2025.
Astroscale's Net Zero Space commitments include developing partnerships with government and commercial stakeholders to create regulations and incentives to boost space sustainability.
Astroscale will work with government and commercial stakeholders to develop norms, regulations, and incentives that support the responsible use of space.
Astroscale signed an agreement with the government of New Zealand on 2021-11-10 to study advanced concepts for orbital debris removal.
The Astroscale mission to inspect an upper stage for JAXA will be launched on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket in 2023.
Astroscale won a contract from the U.K. Space Agency on 2021-10-26 to study the removal of two defunct satellites from low Earth orbit by 2025.
Astroscale Holdings Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment to cooperate on space safety and sustainability.
Astroscale Holdings Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment on 2021-11-11 to cooperate on space safety and sustainability.
The new UK facility will enable Astroscale to build satellite servicers and rapidly develop its commercial debris removal offering in the coming years.
The interior fit-out for Astroscale’s new UK offices began in November 2021 with the intention to move into the new offices by summer 2022.
Astroscale UK was established in 2017 with three employees and has since grown to a team of over 80 spanning engineering, mission operations, ground systems, business development, and operations.
Astroscale’s ambitions for in-orbit servicing align with the UK National Space Strategy released in September 2021, which supports developing the in-orbit servicing market to extend satellite economic life and remove defunct spacecraft.
Astroscale completed the first test phase of its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission in August 2021.
Astroscale Ltd. plans to develop new offices and satellite manufacturing facilities within the Zeus building complex on Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, UK.
Astroscale’s move to the new offices represents a 900% increase in office space to approximately 20,000 square feet.
The ESA Space Safety program awarded funding to Astroscale to develop technology to remove a OneWeb communications satellite.