{"id":56685,"date":"2021-09-11T01:42:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-awards-d-orbit-uk-contract-for-debris-removal-demonstration\/"},"modified":"2021-09-11T01:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:42:40","slug":"esa-awards-d-orbit-uk-contract-for-debris-removal-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-awards-d-orbit-uk-contract-for-debris-removal-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Awards D-Orbit UK Contract for Debris Removal Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p id=\"text_2c66d1343cbd4dfb93d1cc4d8596b77b\" class=\"Block TextBlock -align--left -role--paragraph\">The <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) has awarded the U.K. branch of <strong>D-Orbit<\/strong> a contract to develop debris removal technology, the company announced Wednesday, Sept. 8. The ESA contract is worth $2.6 million (2.2 million euros) as part of ESA\u2019s Space Safety Programme (S2P).<\/p>\n<p id=\"text_29baf4c8753a4b9699895552af3bbf64\" class=\"Block TextBlock -align--left -role--paragraph\">D-Orbit will development and perform an in-orbit demonstration of a \u201cDeorbit Kit\u201d \u2014 equipment that can enable any space vehicle to perform a propulsive decommissioning maneuver. D-Orbit will lead a consortium that also includes <strong>Airbus Defence and Space<\/strong>, <strong>ArianeGroup<\/strong>, <strong>GMV Innovating Solutions<\/strong>, and <strong>Optimal Structural Solutions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"text_36fef6f9b9cc4c99a4ae773c77bb3cb8\" class=\"Block TextBlock -align--left -role--paragraph\">The consortium will develop the multi-purpose kit, which will be installed initially on a Vega rocket payload adapter called Vespa. The kit will be installed before the launch to perform a propulsive direct reentry maneuver over a designated area shortly after the rocket has deployed its payload.<\/p>\n<p id=\"text_02a14fb5a81b4992ac5bd2507f7607a1\" class=\"Block TextBlock -align--left -role--paragraph\">\u201cThe work performed in this activity will define a foundational capability that can be adapted in the future for active debris removal mission concepts, such as on-orbit installation of de-orbit kits on satellites already in space,\u201d said Simon Reid, COO of the U.K. branch of D-Orbit.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in the SATELLITE 2021 Show Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the U.K. branch of D-Orbit a contract to develop debris removal technology, the company announced Wednesday, Sept. 8. The ESA contract is worth $2.6 million (2.2 million euros) as part of ESA\u2019s Space Safety Programme (S2P). D-Orbit will development and perform an in-orbit demonstration of a \u201cDeorbit Kit\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}