Company focused on cleaning up space junk raises $50 million
Capitalism in space: Astroscale, a Japanese company with British ties, has raised $50 million in investment capital for developing a robot spacecraft for locating and removing space junk from orbit.
The company plans to use the funding to support several ongoing efforts, including the development of a technology demonstration satellite called ELSA-d. That spacecraft, scheduled for launch in early 2020 on a Soyuz rocket, will feature “target” and “chaser” satellites to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations. The target spacecraft is being built by British smallsat developer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. under a contract announced last November.
The funding will support scaling up an operations center Astroscale established in the United Kingdom in 2017 that also handles engineering, procurement and business development. Astroscale said it plans to establish an office in the United States in 2019.
The article notes also that much of this money comes from Japanese investors, including Mitsubishi, and reflects a growing interest in Japan in private commercial space.
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Capitalism in space: Astroscale, a Japanese company with British ties, has raised $50 million in investment capital for developing a robot spacecraft for locating and removing space junk from orbit.
The company plans to use the funding to support several ongoing efforts, including the development of a technology demonstration satellite called ELSA-d. That spacecraft, scheduled for launch in early 2020 on a Soyuz rocket, will feature “target” and “chaser” satellites to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations. The target spacecraft is being built by British smallsat developer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. under a contract announced last November.
The funding will support scaling up an operations center Astroscale established in the United Kingdom in 2017 that also handles engineering, procurement and business development. Astroscale said it plans to establish an office in the United States in 2019.
The article notes also that much of this money comes from Japanese investors, including Mitsubishi, and reflects a growing interest in Japan in private commercial space.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Good grief
Another corporation scamming the taxpayer to pay for cleaning up after the non-existent space missions that have already been used to bilk the taxpayer out of innumerable trillions.
That grainy, amateurish movie of some guy in a Michelin Man costume continues to line the pockets of scammers everywhere!
Tell me this, from what camera angle did the get the color photos of the boosters falling off the LEM? And how did they ever have room for something as unwieldy as a dune buggy?
We all know it’s a crock but I guess your just sucking off the crumbs of this con game with ad revenue
Boosters off the LEM? There were no boosters. There was a lower stage for landing, and an upper stage for taking off. Perhaps you’re thinking of something else?
I’m not sure what ad revenue you’re referring to, since the only advertisements I see are for Bob’s books.
How did they have room? Because they applied technology developed for airborne forces in World War 2 and FOLDED IT.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=LUNAR+ROVER+FOLDED&&view=detail&mid=8BE8FD5DFD7CF139A6E58BE8FD5DFD7CF139A6E5&&FORM=VRDGAR
It would help before you ask such easy questions to do some research. Your lack of doing so makes you look stupid, lazy or ignorant. Or all three.
Col Beausabre-
Great clip! I had totally forgotten about how that was accomplished.
Calvin- ask about the Dome!
(hey, we all know– “it’s Turtle’s all the way down,” but keep that to yourself.)