Startup from Switzerland ClearSpace SA will create the tow truck for removal of space debris

2020: Creation of the tow truck for removal of space debris

Development tow truck for removal of space debris is created by engineers from Switzerland. It became known on December 3, 2020. It is allocated with artificial intelligence, the system of navigation, robotic devices for capture which allow the satellite to approach the objects having the status of space stuff.

Signed the contract for 86 million dollars with the Swiss company ClearSpace SA the ESA, having noted that this service will be really special.

Start of the tow truck is planned for 2025. Project implementation will become the next business method for the European Space Agency. The startup completely is implemented for the investment account. A number of the countries, including Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Great Britain, Portugal and Romania will participate in it.

The ESA provides to a startup the key technologies for flights developed within an initiative of the agency of net space within its program of active removal of garbage.

The CEO of a stratap Luke Pige is sure that control over space debris is impossible, but all stuff in space represents serious threat, it can fall to the Ground disorderly. This option of cooperation on a commercial basis represents capture and utilization of unnecessary space objects. In the next decade the number of satellites will constantly increase, and "cleaning" will become priority.

On orbital speeds even the small screw can strike with an explosive force, having damaged any spaceship and to get rid of this threat, it is necessary to delete garbage from space actively. Construction of the tow truck will be available to cleaning of key orbital zones, thereby it will create steady and available services in Earth orbit.

The tow truck will weigh about 112 kilograms, it has a simple form and rugged construction, but in the future it will be optimized for more difficult tasks, for example, for capture of several objects at the same time. Originally the mission will be launched into a low orbit – about 500 kilometers, for tests. Then it will be lifted into a target orbit for rapprochement and capture of space debris^[1].

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