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For this demonstration, Elsa-d will take a smaller spacecraft with it to act as a piece of space debris. In the next decade, more than 10,000 satellites are scheduled to launch, mostly from satellite internet providers such as SpaceX or OneWeb. The European Space Agency estimates 3,600 working satellites are in orbit, and more than 28,000 pieces of debris are being tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network.
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The aim is to design and build a satellite that will chase, grab and destroy a space d. The removal of space debris is the key to space sustainability, which will ensure that new satellites can be operated without the risk of colliding with old ones. ESAs ClearSpace-1 will be the first space mission to remove an item of debris of orbit, planned for launch in 2025. Swiss Space Center at EPFL just launched the 'CleanSpace One' project. It will then push it into the Earth’s atmosphere, where it will burn up. The End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration mission (Elsa-d) is a small satellite designed to find, rendezvous and clamp on to an unwanted satellite. Elsa-d, the world’s first commercial mission to demonstrate a space debris removal system, is scheduled to launch at 06:07 GMT on 20 March from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.ĭeveloped by Astroscale, a Japanese-UK company, the mission will be operated from the UK’s in-orbit servicing control centre (IOCC) at Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell, near Oxford.