Astroscale

Astroscale provides on orbit services for space. Its work covers inspection, servicing and the removal of space debris. The company is headquartered in Japan and has offices and teams in the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Israel.

The company uses rendezvous and proximity operations to inspect, service and remove objects in orbit. The website says its solutions extend mission life, enhance resilience and remove orbital debris.

The ADRAS-J mission is described as the world's first attempt to safely approach and characterize an existing piece of large debris. It launched in February 2024. The ELSA-d mission launched in March 2021. Other projects include LEXI-P, ELSA-M and ISSA-J1.

The website reports 11 satellites in development, 2 launched and 43,800 cumulative hours of in flight operations. Customers named on the site include JAXA, ESA, Eutelsat OneWeb, the UK Space Agency, the United States Space Force and CNES.

The company serves commercial operators, including LEO and GEO satellite constellations and space stations. It also serves civil government customers such as space agencies and research bodies, and national security customers such as defense ministries.

The founder and CEO says that for all missions the company provides an end to end service. That covers mission licensing, spectrum acquisition, insurance and operations for on orbit servicing.

The company was founded in 2013. Astroscale Japan began in 2015, the UK office in 2017, the US office in 2019, the Israel office in 2020 and the France office in 2023. It listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market in June 2024. September 2026 news covers a partnership with HEMERIA in France on sovereign GEO capability, and a French deorbiting demonstration led by Exotrail with Eutelsat.

Services

• Inspect
• Service
• Remove
• On-orbit servicing
• Debris removal
• ADRAS-J mission
• ELSA-d mission
• LEXI-P
• ELSA-M
• ISSA-J1