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 noncooperative 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.
RemoveDEBRIS: An In-Orbit Demonstration of Technologies for the Removal of Space Debris
Handbook of Small Satellites ; Kapitel : 107 ; 1137-1163
2020-09-13
27 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Active Debris Removal , Space debris , Harpoon , Net , Vision based navigation , Drag sail , In-orbit demonstration , Deorbiting , End of life disposal , Cubesats Physics , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Communications Engineering, Networks , Monitoring/Environmental Analysis , Physics and Astronomy
RemoveDEBRIS: An in-orbit active debris removal demonstration mission
Online Contents | 2016
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Elsevier | 2016
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