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 upgraded and expanded ground control center operations, engineering, procurement, and business development capabilities in the United Kingdom.
Astroscale raised a $50,000,000 Series D funding round on 2018-10-31 that brings its total funding to date to $102,000,000.
Astroscale has raised a total of $102,000,000 in capital investment following the fourth funding round.
The Series D funding will support scaling up an Astroscale operations center established in the United Kingdom in 2017 that handles engineering, procurement, and business development.
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan committed up to $35,000,000 in new funding to Astroscale and provided $25,500,000 of that funding immediately.
Astroscale was founded in 2013 and has raised four rounds of funding to date.
Astroscale plans to establish an office in the United States in 2019.
Astroscale is developing a debris capture demonstration mission called End of Life Services by Astroscale – demonstration (ELSA-d) scheduled to launch in early 2020.
Astroscale Pte. Ltd obtained $50,000,000 in additional funding from a group of investors led by INCJ Ltd.
Astroscale completed a $25,000,000 Series C funding round in July 2017.
Astroscale Japan Inc. contracted Glavkosmos/GK Launch Services to launch the ELSA-d mission on a Soyuz-2 cluster mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome in early 2020.
Astroscale Ltd is leading a £4 million UK Government grant to establish a National In-Orbit Servicing Control Facility at the Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell, Oxfordshire.
Astroscale established a ground station in Totsuka, Yokohama for sending and receiving satellite data.
Astroscale intends other low-Earth-orbiting satellites to utilize the Totsuka ground station’s S-band and X-band services.
Astroscale’s Totsuka ground station provides high-performance data transmission and reception services in S-band and X-band frequencies.
ASTROSCALE will design and manufacture the ELSA-d Chaser at its R&D office in Tokyo using avionics supplied by SSTL.
ASTROSCALE established an office and mission control centre in Harwell earlier 2017 as a first step to establish a long-term presence in the UK.
ASTROSCALE PTE. LTD. (ASTROSCALE) will launch the microsatellite IDEA OSG 1 on 2017-11-28 at 14:41:46 JST from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome.
ASTROSCALE’s first satellite took two and a half years to manufacture from its conception.
JAXA’s technologies will facilitate ASTROSCALE’s development of ELSA-d, a technology demonstration satellite scheduled to be launched in the first half of 2019.