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  • RemoveDEBRIS: An in-orbit demonstration of technologies for the removal of space debris

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  • G.S. Aglietti, B. Taylor, S. Fellowes, S. Ainley, D. Tye, C. Cox, A. Zarkesh, A. Mafficini, N. Vinkoff, K. Bashford, T. Salmon, I. Retat, C. Burgess, A. Hall, T. Chabot, K. Kanani, A. Pisseloup, C. Bernal, F. Chaumette, A. Pollini, W.H. Steyn
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    The Aeronautical Journal / Volume 124 / Issue 1271 / January 2020
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    26 November 2019, pp. 1-23
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  • The RemoveDEBRIS mission has been the first mission to successfully demonstrate, in-orbit, a series of technologies that can be used for the active removal of space debris. The mission started late in 2014 and was sponsored by a grant from the EC that saw a consortium led by the Surrey Space Centre to develop the mission, from concept to in-orbit demonstrations, that terminated in March 2019. Technologies for the capture of large space debris, like a net and a harpoon, have been successfully tested together with hardware and software to retrieve data on non-cooperative target debris kinematics from observations carried out with on board cameras. The final demonstration consisted of the deployment of a drag-sail to increase the drag of the satellite to accelerate its demise.