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NorthStar Earth & Space (NorthStar) and Astroscale have announced at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022, that they are forming a strategic partnership to further support space sustainability. This partnership will combine NorthStar\u2019s precise space-based resident space object tracking with Astroscale\u2019s enhanced spacecraft navigation and capture capability for on-orbit servicing.<\/p>\n
Under this agreement, Astroscale and NorthStar will leverage their respective know-how, expertise, and unique services to highlight their shared commitment to space sustainability. Together, NorthStar and Astroscale will cooperate to demonstrate the benefits of combining precise In-Space Situational Awareness (ISSA) services to support reliable on-orbit servicing in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n
In 2023, NorthStar will launch the first commercial Space Situational Awareness service to deliver higher precision detection, tracking, and coverage for all near-Earth orbital regimes. NorthStar\u2019s Space Information and Intelligence (Si2<\/sup>) services will serve all satellite operators to better manage their fleets, enhance spaceflight safety, and ensure space sustainability.<\/p>\n Astroscale is advancing its End-of-Life (EOL) Services, most recently tested during its ELSA-d mission, which successfully magnetically captured its demonstration client spacecraft in August 2021. The latest ELSA-M servicer is in rapid development for launch in 2024 in partnership with OneWeb, the UK Space Agency, and the European Space Agency. The state-of-the-art ELSA-M servicer will capture and retire multiple client spacecraft during a single mission. This collaboration will advance specific ISSA services required to support the tracking and capture of the Client spacecraft, as well as provide essential space-safety information about other space objects in orbit. Astroscale will endeavor to partner with NorthStar as a supplier of SSA services for future Astroscale missions.<\/p>\n \u201cNorthStar is proud to join forces with Astroscale as part of an essential community that is committed to advancing innovation and commercial services for space sustainability,\u201d said Stewart Bain, CEO & Founder of NorthStar Earth & Space. \u201cCombining NorthStar\u2019s space-based coverage with Astroscale\u2019s impressive on-orbit servicing capabilities is a very powerful response to immediate challenges in all near-Earth orbits.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>We\u2019re delighted to announce this partnership with NorthStar to develop our in-space situational awareness technology and data,\u201d said Nick Shave, Managing Director of Astroscale. \u201cWe see an opportunity to enhance our spacecraft servicer and client satellite navigation & tracking capability with support from Northstar\u2019s Space Information and Intelligence Services. We\u2019re keen to leverage our Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) and satellite capture expertise and advance our commercial on-orbit debris removal services with the benefit of both ground-derived and in-space data. This is a great partnership that we look forward to harnessing with our forthcoming ELSA-M mission to clean up space and protect our orbital environment for future generations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Click here to learn about NorthStar Space Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NorthStar Earth & Space (NorthStar) and Astroscale have announced at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022, that they are forming a strategic partnership to further support space sustainability. This partnership will combine NorthStar\u2019s precise space-based resident space object tracking with Astroscale\u2019s enhanced spacecraft navigation and capture capability for on-orbit servicing. Under this agreement, Astroscale and […]<\/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":[72,20],"class_list":["post-9156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-global","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156"}],"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=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}