Astroscale's ELSA-d Ground Segment Team: Breaking New Ground for On-orbit Servicing
Channel: Astroscale
Date: 2021-06-22

Listen to Alexandra Gravereaux, our Senior Ground Segment Engineer, explain how our ELSA-d mission requires extended connectivity beyond that of regular missions and how our innovative use of multiple ground station partners achieves this.

About ELSA-d Ground Segment Team
Astroscale has joined forces with four leading satellite ground station providers to help deliver the world’s first commercial debris removal demonstration this year. 

Astroscale launched the mission, known as End-of-Life Services by Astroscale (ELSA-d), into low Earth orbit (LEO) March 22, 2021 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and has successfully completed first phase commissioning. 

The Ground Segment partners SSC, KSAT, ATLAS and Viasat, along with Astroscale’s own ground station in Totsuka, Japan, have been hard at work to prepare for three major debris removal demonstrations over the next six months.

About Astroscale
Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits. 

Founded in 2013, Astroscale is developing innovative and scalable solutions across the spectrum of on-orbit servicing, including life extension, in situ space situational awareness, end of life, and active debris removal, to create sustainable space systems and mitigate the growing and hazardous buildup of debris in space. Astroscale is also defining business cases and working with government and commercial stakeholders to develop norms, regulations, and incentives for the responsible use of space.

Astroscale UK has been defining the business case for debris removal services since 2017, leading the Mission Operations and commercialization of the ELSA-d demonstration mission. 

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