Astroscale’s privately funded End-of-Life Service by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission is scheduled to launch in 2021 on a GK Launch Services Soyuz 2 mission.

Astroscale plans to launch the first commercial active debris removal mission, End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration in March on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...