Aims to be the first company with a commercially viable product for collecting debris in orbit.
Created: 2022-02-11
Updated: 2025-09-06
Company - Kall Morris Inc (KMI)
Product/Service - REACCH
- Classification
- In-Space Transportation
- Category
- Active Debris Removal (ADR)
Resources - Space Debris Utilization
Robotic Arm
Hardware
- Fields
- In-Space Transportation
- Status
- Development, Launched
- First launch
- 2027
TUMBLEYE
REACCH
Kall Morris Inc. Begins ISS Residency, 2024-11-06.
- The Responsive Engaging Arms for Captive Care and Handling, or REACCH, payload will spend the next few months inside the ISS demonstrating its ability to capture and hold a range of objects in microgravity, with the first demonstration planned for this month.
- The REACCH system is equipped with four tentacle-like arms, each about 1.5 ft long and made of seven segments that roll out to capture a variety of objects.
- The system is also equipped with a push rod that provides a counter-force so that the objects sit firmly in REACCH’s grasp.
- The system will prove out technology that could eventually grab objects on orbit, allowing KMI to move debris out of congested orbital lanes or relocate satellites that don’t have enough juice to move themselves.
- The ISS demonstration is just the first step in KMI’s journey to rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) on orbit.
Laelaps spacecraft
- The REACCH system aboard the ISS is the precursor to a larger system—with eight arms, each 10 segments long—that KMI will attach to its Laelaps spacecraft, aptly named after the Greek mythological dog that never failed to catch what it was hunting.
- KMI expects to have Laelaps operating in orbit as early as 2027.
Phase 0
Capturing unprepared objects in orbit is a task of monumental difficulty. KMI is advancing the cutting edge technologies to create reliable in-space logistics through solutions like REACCH.
Phase 1
Servicing customers requires a capable spacecraft with enormous stores of delta-v and the resilience necessary to complete its mission perfectly, every time. KMI is creating this legendary spaceship through Laelaps.
Phase 2
With a fleet of spacecraft serving all bands of near-Earth orbit, a home port in the heavens will boost their usefulness and extend their reach even further. Stay on the lookout for KMI’s collection station Shepard.
Status Comment
Robotic arm flew to ISS in 2024.
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