Astroscale just scored up to $80 million from the Japanese government to continue its fight against space junk. The Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (known as MEXT) ...

BRUSSELS — Exotrail, a French company specializing in multi-orbit satellite mobility and focused on LEO service vehicles, together with Astroscale France, the French subsidiary of the Japan-based ...

A new video from Japan-based company Astroscale demonstrates a bold new proposal for cleaning up low Earth orbit (LEO). Astroscale launched an initial flight for a previous iteration of its vehicle, ...

Orbital operations company Astroscale has revealed new details about its approach to refueling satellites in space, as part of a $25.5 million project exploring the concept with the Space Force. Their ...

Rocket Lab launched an ambitious space-junk inspection satellite for the Japanese company Astroscale Sunday morning (Feb. 18), Astroscale's ADRAS-J satellite lifted atop an Electron rocket from Rocket ...

For decades, running out of fuel typically has meant the end of the mission for spacecraft orbiting Earth. Now, however, Southwest Research Institute is building a sort of space gas truck that could ...

Scale model of Astroscale's Space Debris Removal Satellite ELSA-d on display at the 35th Space Symposium at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 10, 2019. Credit: Keith ...

An artistic rendering of what an Astroscale U.S. life-extension space vehicle might look like as it services a geostationary satellite. The design is based on Effective Space Solutions' Space Drone.

Astroscale, a well-capitalized Japanese startup, is preparing a small satellite to do something that has never been done in space. This new spacecraft, delivered into orbit Sunday by Rocket Lab, will ...

The free game is based on Astroscale's planned COSMIC mission, which will attempt to remove two old, defunct satellites from orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astroscale hit a major milestone Wednesday, when its space junk removal demo satellite that’s currently in orbit successfully captured and released a client spacecraft using a magnetic system. The End ...