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Nobuhiro Matsuyama will work closely with Astroscale’s CEO and global management team to implement the firm’s strategy to achieve business expansion and profitable growth.
The Series F funding round is the largest funding round in Astroscale’s history and brings the company’s total amount raised to U.S. $300,000,000.
Astroscale plans to expand regional facilities for mass production in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States using Series F funding.
Astroscale’s Series F is the largest funding round in the company’s history and brings the total amount the company has raised to U.S. $300,000,000.
Astroscale raised $109,000,000 from European and Japanese investors in a Series F round on 2024-11-25.
Astroscale won a contract from the U.K. Space Agency in October 2024 to study deorbiting two defunct British satellites, including a possible OneWeb satellite that failed in 2023.
Astroscale’s Series F round is the largest funding round raised to date by the Tokyo-based company.
Astroscale won a contract from the U.K. Space Agency on 2021-10-26 to study the removal of two defunct satellites from low Earth orbit by 2025.
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.
Consortiums led by ClearSpace and Astroscale received just under £700,000 between them to complete mission feasibility studies by the end of March.
Astroscale has raised $191,000,000 to date, including $51,000,000 in its latest Series E funding round.
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.
Rocket Lab won a contract from Astroscale for the launch of the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) spacecraft on 2021-09-21.
Astroscale will launch the world’s first commercial debris removal demonstration mission in low Earth orbit (LEO) in March 2021.
Astroscale plans to launch the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission in March 2021 on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Astroscale plans to launch two satellites for ELSA-d: a servicer spacecraft with a mass of about 175 kg and a client satellite with a mass of 17 kg.
Astroscale Holdings Inc. raised $51,000,000 in a Series E investment round, bringing total funding for the Tokyo-based orbital debris removal startup to $191,000,000.
Since its establishment in 2017, Astroscale UK has grown to over 30 personnel and plans to grow to 80 by 2022.
Astroscale plans to launch a self-funded mission called End-of-Life Service by Astroscale Demonstration (ELSA-D) later 2020 to low Earth orbit to test debris removal technologies.
Astroscale received the Minister of Science and Technology Policy Award, the second highest honor at the Japan Venture Awards, on 2020-02-25.