ClearSpace

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ClearSpace is ESA chosen instrument for the world first commercial debris-removal mission: ClearSpace-1, contracted at ~EUR86M in 2020, will rendezvous with, capture and deorbit a derelict object using a four-armed capture system, with launch on an Arianespace vehicle in the 2026 window. It has broadened from the flagship mission into in-orbit servicing more generally (including UK Space Agency-funded work), positioning itself as the European servicing-and-removal champion at the moment regulators start forcing operators to pay for end-of-life disposal. Everything still depends on flying and succeeding — no removal has yet occurred.

Latest signals

• 16 Oct 2026ClearSpace won a contract worth more than £61 million to lead the UK’s first national active debris removal mission.startupticker.ch
• 16 Oct 2026ClearSpace selected as prime contractor for the UK’s first nationally commissioned active debris removal missionstartupticker.ch
• 15 Oct 2026UK Space Agency selected ClearSpace for the UK's first orbital debris-removal mission.Payload
• 15 Oct 2026ClearSpace selected to deliver the UK’s first national active debris removal missionSatellite Evolution
• 23 Sept 2026ClearSpace signs ESA contract for GEO satellite life-extension mission Phoenixstartupticker.ch

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Facts, with sources

• 14 Sept 2026Debris collision prompted a leaner, faster, and safer ClearSpace-1 mission designSetback · ClearSpace
• 14 Sept 2026Joint leadership of Stage 1 of the UK Government's RPO Sandbox with Astroscale and D-OrbitPartnership · ClearSpace
• 14 Sept 2026ESA-ClearSpace PRELUDE operational in-orbit services programPartnership · ClearSpace
• 14 Sept 2026UK contract to accelerate the CLEAR debris-removal missionContract · ClearSpace

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Scores, Space (of 10)

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

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