{"id":9006,"date":"2022-12-08T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astroscale-japan-partners-with-jaxa-to-launch-co-creation-project-for-satellite-refueling-service-concept\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:03:27","slug":"astroscale-japan-partners-with-jaxa-to-launch-co-creation-project-for-satellite-refueling-service-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astroscale-japan-partners-with-jaxa-to-launch-co-creation-project-for-satellite-refueling-service-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Astroscale Japan Partners with JAXA to Launch Co-Creation Project for Satellite Refueling Service Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Astroscale Japan, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have started concept co-creation activities for a satellite refueling service, under the JAXA Space Innovation through Partnership and Co-creation (J-SPARC).<\/p>\n

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The aim is to explore concepts for a fuel delivery service for one year, toward the realization of space sustainability. The mission concept will be for providing refueling service on orbit to satellites that are both prepared and unprepared to be refueled.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn-orbit services are the sustainable infrastructure of the space economy,\u201d <\/em>said Miki Ito, Managing Director of Astroscale Japan. \u201cOver the past few years, awareness of the orbital environment and space sustainability has increased rapidly, and the demand for such services has grown significantly. We are pleased to be working with JAXA on refueling as a function of life extension, and by 2030, we plan to be able to make on-orbit services, including life extension, a routine basic infrastructure service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Astroscale Japan will study the feasibility of satellite refueling services and consider international collaboration with other Astroscale subsidiaries and partners, applying the rendezvous and proximity operations technology demonstrated in the End-of-Life Services by Astroscale \u2013 demonstration (ELSA-d) mission, and robot arm and hand technology currently under development to the refueling work. JAXA will study the technical feasibility of an on-orbit refueling system, examine ground test equipment for fuel transfer evaluation, and provide technical knowledge and advice based on the studies.<\/p>\n

Earth\u2019s orbits, particularly low-Earth orbit, are becoming crowded due to an increase in space activity, which has led to the accrual of orbital debris. If this trend continues without a solution, it will become difficult to safely use those orbits. To solve this problem and achieve a sustainable space environment, it is important to realize a circular economy through on-orbit services, which include removing and reducing space debris and reusing, repairing, and refueling spacecraft.<\/p>\n

Refueling has cost-reducing effects for satellite operators. Extending the life of satellites will help reduce the number of satellites and launches required to carry out current space activities. Life extension also enables additional missions by removing fuel constraints. According to Northern Sky Research, a U.S. space market research firm, it is estimated that by 2031, life extension services such as refueling will generate $4.7 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn-orbit satellite refueling is a new service that overcomes the longevity factor of fuel depletion and enables satellite operations to continue for a longer period of time,\u201d said Hiroyuki Sugita, Director of Research Unit II at JAXA\u2019s Research and Development Directorate. \u201cWe expect that providing JAXA\u2019s knowledge of refueling technology will advance the private sector\u2019s space projects and contribute to the realization of sustainable space activities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Astroscale Japan, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have started concept co-creation activities for a satellite refueling service, under the JAXA Space Innovation through Partnership and Co-creation (J-SPARC). The aim is to explore concepts for a fuel delivery service for one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,20],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006"}],"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=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}