ELSA-d target spacecraft
The ELSA-d target spacecraft, to be built by SSTL, will be released and captured by Astroscale's "chaser" spacecraft as a test of orbital debris removal technologies.

Astroscale, a company developing technologies for removing orbital debris, announced Nov. 21 it has awarded a contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to develop one part of an upcoming demonstration mission.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...