Journal
AERONAUTICAL JOURNAL
Volume 124, Issue 1271, Pages 1-23Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/aer.2019.136
Keywords
Space Debris; Active Debris Removal; ADR; CubeSats; satellite missions; end of life disposal; deorbiting; net; harpoon; vision-based navigation; drag-sail
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- European Commission [607099]
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The RemoveDEBRIS mission has been the first mission to successfully demonstrate, in-orbit, a series of technologies that can be used for the active removal of space debris. The mission started late in 2014 and was sponsored by a grant from the EC that saw a consortium led by the Surrey Space Centre to develop the mission, from concept to in-orbit demonstrations, that terminated in March 2019. Technologies for the capture of large space debris, like a net and a harpoon, have been successfully tested together with hardware and software to retrieve data on non-cooperative target debris kinematics from observations carried out with on board cameras. The final demonstration consisted of the deployment of a drag-sail to increase the drag of the satellite to accelerate its demise.
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