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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 is developing a debris capture demonstration mission called End of Life Services by Astroscale – demonstration (ELSA-d) scheduled to launch in early 2020.
Astroscale has raised a total of $102,000,000 in capital investment following the fourth funding round.
Astroscale planned to establish an entity in the United States in 2019.
The $50,000,000 funding round is the fourth round of funding raised by Astroscale.
Astroscale was founded in 2013 and has raised four rounds of funding to date.
Astroscale completed a $25,000,000 Series C funding round in July 2017.
Astroscale Pte. Ltd obtained $50,000,000 in additional funding from a group of investors led by INCJ Ltd.
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.
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.
Astroscale plans to establish an office in the United States in 2019.
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’s Totsuka ground station provides high-performance data transmission and reception services in S-band and X-band frequencies.
Astroscale intends other low-Earth-orbiting satellites to utilize the Totsuka ground station’s S-band and X-band services.
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 will design and manufacture the ELSA-d Chaser at its R&D office in Tokyo using avionics supplied by SSTL.
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.