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The £2.5 million award to Astroscale UK forms part of a larger beam-hopping satellite program totaling more than £32 million granted via the UK Space Agency through the European Space Agency’s Sunrise Program.
Astroscale UK received a £2.5 million funding award from partners including OneWeb to mature its technology and capability towards a commercial service offering by 2024.
Astroscale UK received 2.5 million British pounds to develop technologies to safely de-orbit unresponsive satellites similar to Joey-Sat.
The Sunrise funding will support Astroscale UK’s servicing spacecraft ELSA-m, which will demonstrate capabilities in 2024 for removing multiple retired satellites in a single mission.
The £2.5 million award to Astroscale UK forms part of a larger beam-hopping satellite programme totalling over £32 million granted by the UK Space Agency via the European Space Agency’s Sunrise Programme.
ATLAS Space Operations will support Astroscale, LinaSpace, and Axelspace in their space-based missions using the Freedom Platform.
Astroscale’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission launched successfully on 2021-03-22.
GK Launch Services postponed the launch of Astroscale’s ELSA-d and rescheduled it to Monday, 2021-03-22, at 06:07 UTC.
Astroscale expects to complete the main demonstration elements of ELSA-d by the end of 2021.
The End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration mission (ELSA-d) will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 2021-03-20 at 6:07 am UTC.
Astroscale will host a launch livestream for ELSA-d beginning at 2:00 pm Japan Standard Time on 2021-03-20.
The UK Space Agency aims for the licence to facilitate future Astroscale missions for end-of-life and active debris removal services.
The UK Space Agency has licensed the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission.
Astroscale U.S. ran a paid Summer 2021 internship program nominally from June to August that could include either in-person or virtual presence.
Astroscale U.S. offered internships in space policy, marketing and communications, engineering, and strategy for Summer 2021.
Astroscale will launch ELSA-d, described as the world’s first end-to-end demonstration of orbital debris removal, on 2021-03-20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Astroscale was founded in 2013 to develop commercial space debris removal services including End-of-Life (EOL) services, Active Debris Removal (ADR), Space Situational Awareness (SSA), and Life Extension (LEX) services.
Astroscale ran a #SpaceSustainability Twitter campaign from 2021-03-04 to 2021-03-17 with a quiz and a prize drawing for 150 participants.
Astroscale began recruiting members for the Space Sweepers membership program on 2021-02-18 via the #SpaceSustainability official website.
The #SpaceSustainability Twitter campaign awarded 50 Astroscale navy T-shirts (size L, navy color only) and 100 Amazon gift cards worth 1,000 JPY each to a total of 150 winners.