Astroscale

Astroscale offers operators and launchers choices and flexibility across the spectrum of on-orbit servicing, while creating a sustainable foundation for the growth of the space economy in the process.

Created: 2019-01-22

Updated: 2025-09-06

Company - Astroscale

Founded
Country
2013
UK,Japan
Funding
$376M
Website
https://astroscale.com/
Social
Astroscale

Product/Service

Classification
In-Space Transportation
Category
Active Debris Removal (ADR)
On-Orbit Servicing
Propellant Refilling
Propellant Refuel Station
In-Orbit Inspection
Fields
End of Life (EOL)
In-Space Satellite Servicing
Transport Service (In-Space)
On-Orbit Servicing
Status
Demonstrated
First launch
2020

Proposing to aid in the removal of orbital debris through the provision of End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services.

Selected as the commercial partner for Phase I of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) first debris removal project, a groundbreaking step by Japan to commercialize space debris removal.

The JAXA Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration project (CRD2) consists of two mission phases to achieve one of the world’s first debris removal missions of a large object, the first of which has been awarded to Astroscale. This first phase will be demonstrated by the end of the Japan Fiscal Year 2022 and will focus on data acquisition on an upper stage Japanese rocket body. Astroscale will be responsible for the manufacturing, launch and operations of the satellite that will characterize the rocket body, acquiring and delivering movement observational data to better understand the debris environment.

NASA Eyes Private Companies For Swift Orbit Raise, 2025-08-13.

ELSA-D

ELSA-d, or End of Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration, comprises a 175-kilogram servicer spacecraft and a 17-kilogram client satellite both set to launch March 20 as part of a GK Launch Services’ Soyuz-2 rideshare mission lifting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

Astroscale’s ELSA-d Finalizes De-Orbit Operations Marking Successful Mission Conclusion, 2024-01-24.

ELSA-M

Astroscale is also working on a separate spacecraft called Elsa-m, designed to capture and de-orbit three or four objects in a single mission for a constellation customer.

A new Astroscale video shows how the End of Life Services by Astroscale-Multiple mission, ELSA-M, will capture and deorbit a OneWeb communications satellite. In 2025, Astroscale plans to send ELSA-M into very low Earth orbit for commissioning. Next, the Astroscale satellite will move into a higher orbit to test its ability to latch onto a OneWeb satellite equipped with magnetic docking plates.

Auburn said Astroscale is also bidding this year for a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) contract to de-orbit a discarded upper stage of a rocket, without a docking plate. He said the mission will happen “probably by 2025,” with a spacecraft that will require “some kind of robotic arm.”

The Astroscale-UK company has unveiled its concept to remove a defunct British satellite from orbit.

Astroscale UK Secures Contract for Final Phase of ELSA-M In-Orbit Demonstration, 2024-07-22.

ADRAS-J

Launch commercial debris inspection demonstration satellite, Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) in 2024.

The ADRAS-J mission is the world’s first attempt to safely approach, characterize and survey the state of an existing piece of large debris through Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO). ADRAS-J is designed to rendezvous with an unprepared Japanese H2A upper stage rocket body (approximately 11 meters long, 4 meters in diameter, and weighing approximately 3 tons), demonstrate proximity operations, and gather images to assess the rocket body’s movement and condition of the structure.

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Completes Successful Rendezvous and Initiates Proximity Approach, 2024-04-11.

Astroscale spacecraft continues inspection of upper stage, 2024-07-09.

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Continues to Make History: Successfully Demonstrates Fly-Around Observations of Space Debris, 2024-07-30.

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Achieves15-Meter Approach to Space Debris, 2024-12-11.

ADRAS-J2

A contract with JAXA for the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan 2 (ADRAS-J2) mission, valued at 12 billion yen ($82.1 million), SpaceNews, 2024-08-21.

Astroscale Prototype Servicer for Refueling (APS-R)

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will build, integrate and test a small demonstration spacecraft as part of a $25.5 million Space Mobility and Logistics (SML) prototyping project funded by the U.S. Space Force and led by prime contractor Astroscale U.S.

The spacecraft, called the Astroscale Prototype Servicer for Refueling (APS-R), will refuel other compatible vehicles while in geostationary orbit.

The APS-R will operate in geostationary orbit around the Earth, meaning it will follow a circular orbit in sync with the Earth’s rotational period of 24 hours. The spacecraft will carry hydrazine propellant from a depot, also in geostationary orbit, to the spacecraft in need of fuel. The APS-R can service any spacecraft fitted with a compatible refueling port.

“The maximum dimensions are 24-by-28-by-45 inches when stowed for launch, and the total vehicle launch mass is 437 pounds, including propellant,” Thompson said.

Astroscale will adapt their existing ‘COSMIC’ debris removal spacecraft to a new refuelling servicer product, partnering with TAS, Airbus Defence & Space, Orbit Fab and GMV.

OneWeb De-orbit Mission

Astroscale approaches critical design review for OneWeb de-orbit mission, SpaceNews, 2024-11-29.

Astroscale U.S. Refueler

Astroscale U.S. to Lead the First-Ever Refueling of a United States Space Force Asset, 2025-04-09.

LEXI

Orbit Fab, the Gas Stations in Space™ refueling service provider, and Astroscale U.S. Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc., have signed a commercial agreement to refuel Astroscale’s Life Extension In-Orbit (LEXI™) Servicer in GEO; LEXI is the first satellite designed to be refueled. Under the terms of this initial agreement, Orbit Fab’s GEO fuel shuttle will resupply Astroscale’s fleet of LEXI Servicers with up to 1,000 kilograms of Xenon propellant.

With this purchase, Astroscale has greatly expanded LEXI’s scope and flexibility to perform on-orbit servicing missions — a benefit for every customer. Astroscale’s LEXI spacecraft is slated to launch to GEO by 2026, where it will perform life extension services for commercial operators, the U.S government and partner governments around the world. LEXI’s key services for customers include station keeping and attitude control, momentum management, inclination correction, GEO relocation and retirement to graveyard orbit.

Astroscale Japan Inc. (“Astroscale Japan”), a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have started concept co-creation activities for a satellite refueling service, under the JAXA Space Innovation through Partnership and Co-creation (J-SPARC). The aim is to explore concepts for a fuel delivery service for one year, toward the realization of space sustainability. The mission concept will be for providing refueling service on orbit to satellites that are both prepared and unprepared to be refueled.

Astroscale reveals concept of operations for its in-orbit refueling vehicle, SpaceNews, 2024-01-17

Towards a Circular Space Economy: Satellite Refurbishment and Upgrading Services for Orbital Sustainability

Astroscale will work with In-Space Missions (ISM) to develop an In-orbit Refurbishment and Upgrading Service (IRUS). The servicer will be a variant of COSMIC, Astroscale’s UK Active Debris Removal solution, and the initial client will be an upgradable ISM vehicle. Following the initial systems study, Astroscale will pursue the execution of the Preliminary Service Offering and future commercial services, leveraging established partnerships with companies spread across many ESA member states.

News

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, a leading defense and space company, and Astroscale Holdings Inc., the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term sustainability across all orbits, announced today that Mitsubishi Electric has invested U.S. $25 million in Astroscale’s Series G funding round. Separate from the investment, the companies have agreed to collaborate in the joint development and manufacturing of sustainably designed satellite buses for Japanese national security constellations.

Small satellite builder Astro Digital plans to add an Astroscale docking plate to upcoming spacecraft to make it easier for them to use in-orbit services being developed by Astroscale and others.

Satellites could become more sustainable, thanks to new UK Space Agency funding, 2024-02-09

Debris removal, satellite life-extension provider Astroscale: 568 sats now in LEO w/ our docking plates = $450M in likely revenue, 2024-08-20.

Status Comment

Astro Digital to integrate Astroscale in-orbit servicing docking plates, SpaceNews, 2023-08-01.

Notes

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News, Research, Projects and Patents

Title Type Date Summary
Financing Astroscale Report 2024-05-04
Astroscale ships its space junk removal demonstration satellite for March 2021 mission News 2020-12-22 >

Japanese startup Astroscale has shipped its ELSA-d spacecraft to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan, where it will be integrated with a Soyuz rocket for a launch scheduled for March of next year. This is a crucial mission for Astroscale, since it’ll be the first in-space demonstration of the company’s technology for de-orbiting space debris, a cornerstone of its proposed space sustainability service business.

Astroscale moving into GEO satellite servicing market News, Acquisition 2020-06-03 >

Astroscale announced June 3 it is acquiring the intellectual property of the satellite-servicing company Effective Space Solutions. The move positions Astroscale’s U.S. subsidiary to become a direct competitor to Northrop Grumman in the geostationary satellite servicing market.

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Stellar Space Industries

Concept

Start, Cis-Lunar Transfer Vehicle (CLTV), IMAGIN-e

Space Tug, On-Orbit Servicing, Propellant Refilling, Propellant Refuel Station, In-Orbit Computing

Thales Alenia Space

Development

Worker Bee, Sutter Space Telescope

Space Tug, Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Resources - Asteroid Mining, Propellant Refuel Station, Space Mining, In-Space Manufacturing, ISRU (In Situ Resource Utilization), Propellant Refilling, Active Debris Removal (ADR)

TransAstra (Trans Astronautics Corporation)

Development

Spacecraft On-Orbit Advanced Refueling and Storage (SOARS)

Propellant Refuel Station, Propellant Refilling

Valor Robotics (Zero-G Horizons Technologies)

Dormant, Development

InsureSat

Space Situational Awareness (SSA), In-Orbit Inspection

Chandah Space Technologies

Dormant, Early stage

Inspect

Space Situational Awareness (SSA), In-Orbit Inspection

HEO (High Earth Orbit Robotics)

Active

OrbitGuard

On-Orbit Servicing, Space Situational Awareness (SSA), In-Orbit Inspection

Infinite Orbits

Development, Launched

ARCap Module

On-Orbit Servicing, Transport Service (LEO-GEO), Active Debris Removal (ADR), In-Orbit Inspection, Space Tug, Hardware, Docking

Kurs Orbital

Development

Space Situational Awareness (SSA), In-Orbit Inspection

LMO Space

Development, Launched

Orbital Transportation, Transport Service (LEO-GEO), Reusable Satellite, Space Tug, Space Situational Awareness (SSA), In-Orbit Inspection

Orbital Operations

Development

Active Debris Removal (ADR), In-Orbit Inspection, Space Situational Awareness (SSA)

OrbitGuardians

Early stage

Tetra-5

On-Orbit Servicing, In-Orbit Inspection, Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Propellant Refuel Station, Propellant Refilling

Orion Space

Development

In-Orbit Inspection, Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Satellite Life Extension, On-Orbit Servicing, Kick Stage, Hopper

PAVE Space

Development

Ranger

Transport Service (LEO-Moon), In-Space Communications Relay, In-Space Manufacturing, On-Orbit Servicing, In-Orbit Inspection, Beyond-LEO Remote Sensing, In-Space Logistics, Transport Service (LEO-GEO), Satellite Life Extension

Quantum Space

Development, Launched

Space Situational Awareness (SSA), In-Orbit Inspection, In-Space Situational Awareness, Hardware

SCOUT Space (Eight Continent Technologies)

Development, Launched

Jackal

Space Cybersecurity, In-Orbit Inspection, Space Situational Awareness (SSA), Space Domain Awareness (SDA)

True Anomaly

Development, Launched

Space Situational Awareness (SSA), In-Orbit Inspection

Vyoma Space

Development