Watch to academics and engineers at the University of Surrey talk about the problem of Space Debris and how the Remove Debris mission will help sort it.

The mission will comprise of a main satellite platform (~100kg) that once in orbit will deploy two CubeSats as artificial debris targets to demonstrate some of the technologies (net capture, harpoon capture, vision-based navigation, dragsail de-orbitation). The project is co-funded by the European Commission and the project partners, and is led by the Surrey Space Centre (SSC), University of Surrey, UK. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No. 607099.

Besides the Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) the consortium includes: Airbus Defence and Space (Germany, UK, and France/Toulouse), the world’s second largest space company; Airbus Safran Launchers (France); SSTL, a world leader in small satellites (UK); ISIS (Netherlands); CSEM (Switzerland); Inria (France); Stellenbosch University (South Africa). The work is shared amongst the members of the consortium as briefly described below:

Mission & Consortium coordination SSC (UK)
Satellite system engineering ASF (France)
Platform & Avionics – SSTL (UK)
Harpoon – Airbus (UK)
Net – Airbus (Germany)
Vision Based Navigation – CSEM (Switzerland)/INRIA/Airbus (France/Toulouse)
Cubesat dispensers – Innovative solutions in space (Holland)
Target cubesats – Surrey Space Centre (UK)/STE
Dragsail – Surrey Space Centre (UK)

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