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Source: Astroscale
Source: Astroscale
Source: Astroscale
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Astroscale specialize in on-orbit servicing across various orbits close to Earth, their services include space debris removal; end-of-life solutions for defunct satellites, active debris removal, life extension for geostationary satellites, and space situational awareness.
Their high-profile missions include debris inspection and the ADRAS-J project.
Astroscale aims to deploy a sustainable infrastructure in space to support the growing space economy, underlining the need for maintaining orbital highways to safeguard future satellite operations.

  • Investing in on-orbit servicing will be a the next space investing trend, mainly because there are thousands of satellite in orbit and while SpaceX is slowly bringing the cost of launch down, there will then be thousands of more satellites clogging up, and potentially closing orbits. The call for sustainable space debris solution will probably come after a collision, resulting in an international call to clean up space debris. In this scenario, Astroscale is well placed. However, revenue from a series of one-off missions is fraught with profitability perils. The Astroscale IPO and subsequent share price activity will be interesting because this a post-space-SPAC IPO, and investor sentiment has changed in the last five years. An investment in Astroscale could be like option on space debris becoming a billion-dollar boom industry.

Astroscale is now lised on the Japanese Stock Market.

Their latest news:

Astroscale Japan Selected to Develop In-Space Refueling Technologies – This means they are moving into the orbital servicing market, offering services such as Rendezvous and Proximity Operations Technologies, for cooperative objects (e.g. satellites) and non-cooperative objects (space craft and space debris) which is essential to support the ongoing space economy

New about the Astroscale 2024 IPO cames from Reuters: Japan space startup Astroscale aims for June listing.

Astroscale’s main missions developing space sustainability. They include:

  1. ADRAS-J (Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan): To demonstrate and validate technologies necessary for active debris removal.
  2. COSMIC (Commercial Removal of Debris Mission): Commercial debris removal operations, via scalable services for debris mitigation.
  3. ELSA-d (End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration): A technology demonstration for end-of-life services; a servicer satellite will demonstrate capturing and deorbiting a client’s satellite, safely.
  4. Lunar Dream Capsule Project: A time capsule on the Moon, in partnership with ispace, containing a variety of messages and dreams from people around the world.