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Astroscale's project, adopted by the program in January 2025, focuses on developing domestic chemical fuel replenishment technology for multiple orbits and electric propulsion.
Astroscale will combine its past rendezvous operations technology with robotics, computer vision, and fuel transfer technologies for the fuel replenishment demonstration.
Astroscale Holdings disclosed that its subsidiary Astroscale signed a research contract with the Japan Science and Technology Agency to study in-space fuel replenishment technology for cooperative satellites.
Astroscale Ltd (Astroscale UK), D-Orbit, and ClearSpace jointly secured GBP 690,000 excluding VAT from the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for a Regulatory Sandbox project to test Rendezvous and Proximity Operations missions.
The United Kingdom permitted Astroscale to test debris removal capabilities in 2021 under the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-D) program.
Astroscale Japan was selected under Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Small Business Innovation Research program to advance debris removal technologies.
Defunct objects do not provide GPS data or other critical telemetry, making RPO more complex for Astroscale.
Astroscale Japan Inc. will transition to Phase II of the development for its ISSA-J1 mission.
Astroscale aims to develop technologies to safely and precisely approach and inspect large debris with the ISSA-J1 mission.
Astroscale has demonstrated key rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) technologies by approaching a rocket upper stage within 15 meters during the ADRAS-J mission.
Astroscale validated the onboard collision avoidance system during its ADRAS-J mission.
Astroscale independently designed the 2024-11-30 15-meter approach as an ambitious objective in addition to JAXA’s baseline mission requirements.
The Astroscale satellite is scheduled to launch in 2026-04-01.
Astroscale, Starfish Space, Kall Morris, and D-Orbit are working on ADR technologies with some government-sponsored missions.
Astroscale plans to integrate ELSA-M subsystems during 2025 after finalizing algorithms and completing the critical design review.
Astroscale plans a launch of ELSA-M likely occurring in the second quarter of 2026.
Dr. Clair Martin is the EVP of Astroscale US.
Astroscale UK signed a contract with Eutelsat OneWeb in July 2024 for the final phase of the ELSA-M in-orbit demonstration as part of the Sunrise Partnership Project.
Astroscale holds a contract from Japan’s space agency to de-orbit a defunct upper stage of an H-2A rocket using a servicer equipped with a robotic arm.
The UK Space Agency awarded funds to consortiums led by Astroscale and ClearSpace to continue developing a servicer capable of removing two spacecraft from low Earth orbit in 2026.