...A demonstration mission to test new technology developed by the company Astroscale to clean up space debris is set to launch in the early hours of Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.A Soyuz 2 rocket will launch a 175-kilogram spacecraft with a satellite attached into space. The spacecraft and the 17-kilogram satellite — the debris to be cleaned up — will separate and then perform a high-stakes game of cat and mouse over the next few months....Astroscale is headquartered in Japan but the mission is being controlled from the United Kingdom....
...Also onboard the Soyuz-2.1a awaiting launch is the first nanosatellite for Sateliot, a Spanish Internet of Things startup that aims to deploy a constellation of such satellites in low Earth orbit to help terrestrial 5G network operators connect “permanently or occasionally uncovered devices” owned by enterprise customers. Sateliot recently outlined ambitions to generate €236 million ($282 million) in revenue by 2025 with a constellation of up to 100 satellites, connecting devices for applications ranging from environmental monitoring to logistics.The startup, which tapped U.K.-based Open Cosmos in 2020 to build and operate its constellation, said it has raised a €5 million series A funding round to support this launch and early research and development. It is planning another funding round to deploy 16 more satellites to launch commercial services by 2022-2023.Other payloads onboard the launch include tiny satellites for private ventures Axelspace, Hiber, Kepler Communications and Lacuna Space and numerous cubesats for universities and research institutions from around the world. ...
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