At the end of its operational life, CIMR satellite will perform a re-entry phase to comply with the ESA Clean Space policy. Given the mission's complexity, the presentation will detail critical aspects and innovative strategies for attitude control during perigee lowering, providing valuable insight into navigating challenges and ensuring a clean and controlled conclusion of the mission.
To limit the risk of cascading collisions, we will need active debris removal missions to retrieve satellites that die before they can be deorbited. It is well understood that sudden fatal failures can cause a dead satellite to tumble uncontrollably, but even properly decommissioned satellites may start tumbling spontaneously from solar radiation pressure torque buildup, making capture...
Active Debris Removal (ADR) is the ultimate technical solution to enforce a zero debris policy in the presence of old space objects which were not designed to be deorbited, or in case of malfunction of a deorbiting system. Such a technology is, however, extremely complex due to the noncooperative nature of the target and therefore often very expensive. ClearSpace intends to demonstrate the...
