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Exotrail has a partnership with Astroscale France to develop deorbiting capabilities for orbital mobility and sustainability services.
The agreements between Exotrail and the Indian companies were signed in Mumbai during the inauguration of the "India-France Year of Innovation."
Jean-Luc Maria is the CEO of Exotrail.
The collaboration follows a study phase led by Exotrail under a France 2030 contract with the French space agency CNES that evaluated a deorbiting mission for a constellation satellite.
New entrants targeting in-orbit services such as debris removal, life extension, and logistics include Astroscale, Exotrail, and D Orbit.
Astroscale France and Exotrail announced a strategic partnership on January 28, 2026 to develop and demonstrate controlled deorbiting capabilities for satellites in Low Earth Orbit.
The partnership combines Exotrail’s mission leadership on vehicles and maneuvers with Astroscale France’s capture and close-proximity operations expertise.
The technical core of the partnership merges Exotrail’s mobility platforms, including spacevan™, with Astroscale’s specialized servicing hardware and rendezvous-and-proximity-operations (RPO) technology.
MaiaSpace secured its first commercial launch contract with Exotrail for missions starting in 2027.
In November 2022, Isar Aerospace secured a multi-launch deal with Exotrail for flights between 2024 and 2029.
Exotrail offers satellite operators the ability to share the cost of launches on cheaper rideshare missions, followed by using the OTV to deliver satellites to their desired orbital trajectories.
Exotrail vertically integrated many subsystems aboard the spacevan after the first mission to improve the economics and capabilities of future OTV missions.
Exotrail is ramping up its mission cadence with two missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) planned for 2026 and two missions in Geostationary Orbit (GEO) beginning in 2027, one of which is supported by CNES.
Exotrail is learning how to industrialize its product and produce at scale.
Exotrail provides customers the ability to test technologies and gain flight heritage by hosting payloads.
Deploying satellites through the OTV puts Exotrail in competition with small launchers, according to CEO Jean-Luc Maria.
According to Jean-Luc Maria, the only small rocket that competes with Exotrail is Rocket Lab, which has low capacity and long wait times.
Exotrail aims to provide a wide range of services for future customers and plans to take on in-space servicing missions that require rendezvous and proximity operations capabilities.
Exotrail unveiled the customer manifest for its second mission of the spacevan orbital transfer vehicle, which will launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-16 in early 2026.
Exotrail’s second OTV mission will occur more than two years after its first spacevan flight, which launched in 2023.