Plenty of news stories have focused on the danger posed by Kessler syndrome. In this condition, space is made inaccessible by a cloud of debris surrounding our planet that would destroy any further attempts to get into orbit. Therefore, plenty of companies have sprung up that problem to take care of the problem, from blasting … Continue reading "A New Mission Will Grab Dead Satellites and Push Them Into the Atmosphere to Burn Up"

This mission, ELSA-M, is a follow-up on the proof of concept ELSA-D mission that was launched in 2021 and successfully rendezvoused with a client’s satellite.

A challenge to this company going forward I see is that their interceptor requires a proprietary plate of their design to already have been affixed to the target satellite. I just don’t see how this gets wide adoption enough to help meet their lofty preventing Kessler syndrome rhetoric.