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Once launched, ClearSpace-1 will be deployed into a 500-kilometer orbit for commissioning and testing before being raised to the target orbit for rendezvous and capture.
The ClearSpace-1 chaser spacecraft has a mass of 500 kg and is slated to launch aboard a Vega-C rocket in 2025.
The Clean Space technologies to be supplied for ClearSpace-1 include advanced guidance, navigation and control systems, vision-based AI, and robotic arms.
ESA will supply key technology for the ClearSpace-1 mission developed by the agency’s Clean Space initiative as part of its Active Debris Removal/In-Orbit Servicing project.
ClearSpace plans to undertake a series of increasingly ambitious follow-on missions after completion of ClearSpace-1 with the goal of developing single spacecraft capable of capturing multiple objects.
The 86,000,000 EUR supplied by ESA will be supplemented with an additional 24,000,000 EUR that ClearSpace is raising from commercial investors.
ESA signed a contract with ClearSpace on 2020-11-13 to complete the safe deorbiting of a payload adapter launched aboard the second flight of the Arianespace Vega rocket in 2013.
The ClearSpace One mission is part of a EUR 100 million space debris removal project led by the European Space Agency (ESA).
ClearSpace One will capture the discarded VESPA upper stage (VEga Secondary Payload Adapter) from a rocket launched in 2013 and guide it into the Earth’s atmosphere.
ClearSpace SA, as a start-up, was selected to lead the EUR 100 million ESA space debris removal project consortium.
ClearSpace’s ClearSpace-1 team has until March 2021 to finish designing the debris removal spacecraft.
ClearSpace plans to launch its debris removal spacecraft in 2025 to deorbit a leftover Vega rocket structure.
ClearSpace selected 20 partners for the European Space Agency program to build its debris removal spacecraft.
Swiss startup ClearSpace is leading a European consortium focused on capturing a Vespa payload adapter in 2025 and deorbiting it.
ClearSpace received a European Space Agency contract in December to deorbit a derelict rocket upper stage in 2025.
ClearSpace was selected for a roughly $130,000,000 mission to deorbit a piece of rocket debris for the European Space Agency.
ESA estimates the total ClearSpace-1 mission will cost 117,000,000 EUR ($129,000,000) to complete.
ClearSpace will lead a consortium of European companies to build a spacecraft equipped with four robotic arms to capture debris and drag it into Earth’s atmosphere.
The European Space Agency signed a debris-removal contract with Swiss startup ClearSpace to deorbit a substantial piece of a Vega rocket that was left in orbit in 2013.
ESA’s 22 member states will discuss funding the remainder of the ClearSpace-1 mission in 2022 through the agency’s ministerial budget process.