{"id":64269,"date":"2018-08-23T20:08:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/removedebris-to-begin-experimental-phase-of-mission\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:08:16","slug":"removedebris-to-begin-experimental-phase-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/removedebris-to-begin-experimental-phase-of-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"RemoveDebris to Begin Experimental Phase of Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Surrey Satellite Technology<\/strong>&nbsp;(SSTL) has confirmed the successful commissioning in-orbit of the RemoveDebris spacecraft, which was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on June 20, 2018. Spacecraft operators at SSTL have just completed a series of tests and operations to confirm the functionality of key operating systems such as power management, communications, propulsion, attitude control, and on-board computing. The satellite is now ready for the experimental phase of the mission to begin.<\/p>\n<p>The RemoveDEBRIS mission will perform four&nbsp; Active Debris Removal (ADR) experiments, beginning in October with the deployment of a net developed by <strong>Airbus<\/strong> in Bremen, which has been designed to capture a target cubesat. The mission is then scheduled to test a vision-based navigation system from Airbus in Toulouse and <strong>CSEM<\/strong> in Switzerland, that uses 2D and 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology to track a cubesat released from the main spacecraft. Early in 2019, a harpoon developed by Airbus in Stevenage will be fired at 20 meters a second to penetrate a target made of composite material. Finally, the RemoveDEBRIS craft will deploy a large drag sail to speed de-orbit into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The RemoveDEBRIS satellite was designed, built, and manufactured by a consortium of pace companies and research institutions, led by the <strong>Surrey Space Center<\/strong> at the University of Surrey and co-funded by the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> (EC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrey Satellite Technology&nbsp;(SSTL) has confirmed the successful commissioning in-orbit of the RemoveDebris spacecraft, which was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on June 20, 2018. Spacecraft operators at SSTL have just completed a series of tests and operations to confirm the functionality of key operating systems such as power management, communications, propulsion, attitude control, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63707,"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-64269","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\/64269"}],"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=64269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}