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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 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 completed the first test phase of its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission in August 2021.
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.
The UK Space Agency awarded funding to Astroscale and ClearSpace to research a UK-led mission to remove junk from space.
The ESA Space Safety program awarded funding to Astroscale to develop technology to remove a OneWeb communications satellite.
Astroscale is developing ELSA-m under a public-private partnership with the European Space Agency and OneWeb.
Consortiums led by ClearSpace and Astroscale received just under £700,000 between them to complete mission feasibility studies by the end of March.
Through the European Space Agency’s Sunrise program, Astroscale is working with OneWeb to develop the ELSA-M servicer.
MDA is partnering with Astroscale to provide capture robotics and robotic operations expertise for the study.
Astroscale has raised $191,000,000 to date, including $51,000,000 in its latest Series E funding round.
Under the Active Debris Removal Phase 0-A Feasibility Study funded by the UK Space Agency, Astroscale and ClearSpace are tasked with researching how to de-orbit two defunct satellites that were not built with retrieval and removal in mind.
Astroscale launched the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) spacecraft in March and continues to perform tests with a tiny client satellite acting as debris.
Astroscale plans to release the ELSA-d client satellite later 2021 at a greater distance and then test automated flight software to capture it again.
Astroscale plans to launch an ADRAS-J inspection spacecraft on Rocket Lab in 2023 ahead of a removal attempt that could take place in 2025.
Astroscale developed a Life Extension (LEX) service for geostationary orbit (GEO) spacecraft to extend their operational time in orbit.
Astroscale seeks partnership with the UK Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the UK Space Agency, and the European Space Agency to support space sustainability goals.
Astroscale intends to work with satellite operators to deliver on-orbit servicing and Active Debris Removal programmes.
Astroscale favors reducing the PMD timeframe for LEO constellation satellites toward five years with the support of disposal services.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) awarded a contract to Astroscale to inspect a spent Japanese rocket stage in orbit with later plans to remove the stage.