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09/10/2026

🚀 IAC2026: Connecting the global space community, advancing space sustainability!

What an exciting week at the 77th International Astronautical Congress!
From industry collaboration to regulatory discussions and a successful European bid for IAC 2029, ClearSpace was proud to contribute on several fronts.

🇱🇺 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲
A big thank you to the Luxembourg Space Agency for hosting us at its excellent pavilion and providing a fantastic platform to connect with partners, customers and industry leaders from around the world.

⚖️ 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧-𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠
Our strategy & policy manager, Romain Buchs, presented “Enabling Multi-Jurisdiction In-Orbit Servicing: Tools and Processes Developed in the UK RPO Sandbox” at the IISL Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space. As in-orbit servicing moves towards commercial operations, clear and effective regulatory frameworks are essential to enabling safe, sustainable missions across jurisdictions. A link to the original article will be shared in comments.

🇨🇭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐀𝐂 2029!
What a moment to witness the announcement live! Our CEO, Luc Piguet, joined the celebrations as Geneva was announced as the host of hashtag . We were proud to support the bid and delighted to share the excitement with the Swiss space community.
Congratulations to the entire Geneva bid team! We look forward to another outstanding IAC in Europe in 2029.

📢 And one more milestone: ClearSpace is now officially 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐈𝐀𝐅)! Big thanks to IAF Secretariat for their great support.

Thank you to everyone who made IAC 2026 such a valuable week of exchanges, collaboration and new connections. See you again.

28/09/2026

𝐀 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠. 🛰️

Every year, insurers pay out hundreds of millions in claims for satellites that fail early, often for anomalies that could, in principle, be diagnosed and fixed in orbit. Yet no satellite has ever been robotically repaired in orbit.

Technology is advancing rapidly and creating new opportunities, but realizing its full potential also requires overcoming broader commercial and operational challenges.

In a new paper with Relm Insurance and Satellite Applications Catapult, ClearSpace explores how operators, insurers, and third-party capital could share that risk, and what existing industries, from marine salvage to litigation funding, already show us about how to structure it.

We'd welcome views from anyone thinking about this problem: https://clearspace.today/publications

23/09/2026

A new step forward for Phoenix. 🚀

ClearSpace has signed a new contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to advance Phoenix, our GEO life-extension programme, towards commercial in-orbit servicing.

Satellites can remain valuable long after propellant becomes a limiting factor. Phoenix is designed to rendezvous with and dock to operational satellites — including those not originally designed to be serviced — providing propulsion and attitude-control support to help extend their useful life.

With the broader Phoenix development programme estimated at approximately €100 million, this next phase will advance the technologies needed to bring satellite life extension closer to operational and commercial deployment.

Building on the foundations established with the support of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Space Agency, Phoenix now progresses under ESA’s ARTES programme.

Our ambition: make in-orbit servicing repeatable, commercially valuable and part of Europe’s future space infrastructure. 🛰️

🔗 Read the full story: https://clearspace.today/news/clearspace-signs-esa-contract-to-advance-phoenix-geo-life-extension-mission
🎥 Discover Phoenix: https://youtu.be/RIDyJ55yrmM?si=arKV14flt3vbsgPR

14/09/2026

🛰️🤝 Last Thursday, we were delighted to welcome 9 Space Fellows and 6 members of UNIDIR to our ClearSpace office in Renens for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of our facilities and mission.

It was a pleasure to exchange ideas on the future of space sustainability and discuss the importance of collaboration in making space operations safer, more transparent, and sustainable for all.

Thank you to the UNIDIR team for visiting us and for sharing this takeaway from their experience:

“UNIDIR's Space Fellows had the privilege of visiting ClearSpace this week, and it was a masterclass in what space sustainability looks like in practice. We're taking back a clear message to States and stakeholders, that greater transparency on satellite data will make missions and sustainability efforts easier and safer to achieve. Thank you for opening your doors and sharing your mission with us!" said Sarah Erickson, Researcher of Space Security Programmes at UNIDIR.

Together, we are building a future where responsible space operations and international cooperation go hand in hand. We look forward to continuing the conversation and driving meaningful action for a more sustainable orbital environment. 🌍🚀

08/06/2026

The future of in-orbit servicing is being built through innovation, collaboration, and shared commitment across the space sector. 🌍🛰️

Through the RPO Operators Consortium, ClearSpace is proud to work alongside Astroscale and D-Orbit on the UK-funded RPO Regulatory Sandbox, an initiative bringing together government, regulators, and industry to explore practical approaches for authorising in-orbit servicing missions across multiple operators, jurisdictions, and States.

At hashtag , the Consortium will present the findings and tools developed through this collaborative effort, contributing to ongoing international discussions on the future of in-orbit servicing and the implementation of international space law.

For ClearSpace, this work reflects our vision of enabling a sustainable and circular space economy through safe, responsible, and scalable in-orbit services.
📅 11 June
⏰ 13:00–13:55 UK time

We look forward to engaging with the COPUOS community. Remote participation is available via the link here: https://clearspace.odoo.com/r/0vy

04/06/2026

🛰️ PRIMA is live.

Years of engineering on the ground. Algorithms developed, tested, refined and now we begin to answer our question: does it hold up in the real environment of space?

PRIMA, flying aboard DPhi Space's Clustergate-2, is our first opportunity to validate IPS robustness under true on-orbit conditions. Real sensor data. Real radiation environment. Real answers.

This is more than a technical milestone. This is the foundational validation of ClearSpace's in-orbit servicing capabilities.

→ Validating our Image Processing Software (IPS) under real orbital conditions including radiation effects that no ground simulation can fully replicate
→ Confirming that our deep learning models for object detection, pose estimation, and scene understanding perform as designed in space
→ Building the data foundation that will underpin every future ClearSpace mission from inspection to Active Debris Removal

Classical computer vision breaks in the visual complexity of orbital environments. PRIMA's approach learns directly from data more robust, more scalable, and designed for exactly the conditions that matter.

We have been building toward this moment for years. PRIMA is how we prove it.
The data is coming in. Our confidence is growing. 🚀

This is the foundational technology block for ClearSpace's in-orbit servicing roadmap. Every future mission, inspection, rendezvous, capture, depends on getting this right.

12/02/2026

We were pleased to welcome European Space Agency - ESA | ESA Space Safety delegates to ClearSpace for a technical visit, including the opportunity to witness our state-of-the-art Dark Room in action during the first advanced RendezVous Test Campaign ( ) campaign for ClearSpace-1 mission.

This visit marks the start of an intensive period of testing, with multiple technical campaigns planned across our facilities in support of ClearSpace-1 and our broader portfolio of missions and technology developments. Our teams are fully mobilised and deep in test mode 🛠️

It was also a great reminder that while calls and screens keep us connected, nothing quite replaces meeting in person, exchanging ideas face to face, and seeing the technology up close 🤝

Thank you to ESA for the continued collaboration and technical exchange as we move forward together.

Stay tuned for upcoming testing stories.

📸 Photo taken at the ClearSpace Switzerland Dark Room great team, from left to right: Charles Bakouche, Lionel Métrailler, Luigi Strippoli, Kieran Vaudaux, Simon Bothner, Jacques Viertl, Irene Huertas

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11/02/2026

🚀🔬 Today, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the curiosity, expertise, and determination that drive discovery forward in space and here on Earth.

At ClearSpace, we are proud to work alongside talented women across engineering, operations, and leadership, including our co-founder Muriel Richard-Noca, whose vision and technical excellence help shape the future of sustainable space activities. Their contributions strengthen our teams, sharpen our thinking, and push the boundaries of what is possible.

As a space engineering company, we know that progress depends on diverse perspectives, rigorous science, and the courage to solve complex challenges.

From advancing in-orbit services to collaborating with local universities and supporting hashtag education programs, we are committed to helping create pathways for the next generation of scientists and engineers. 🛰️

To every woman and girl exploring, building, researching, and imagining the future: your ideas belong in labs, classrooms, control rooms, and beyond our atmosphere. The future of space needs you.

👩‍🚀 Our job link → https://clearspace.odoo.com/r/qSo
📸 A snapshot from many moments across our journey featuring some of the incredible women of ClearSpace (and a few of our office puppies 🐶). We hope we didn’t miss anyone; this collage represents just a glimpse of the people who make our team special every day. 👍

20/01/2026

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐎𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭

As spacecraft grow smarter, simulation must become more real.
Onboard AI, computer vision, and high-performance computing are redefining how missions are designed—and how they must be validated.

That’s why ClearSpace has been selected by ESA and Asynchronics to participate in ASCEND, to explore next-generation Digital Twin and hybrid simulation capabilities using the NeXosim platform

By combining high-fidelity system-level simulation with flight-representative software and progressing toward hardware-in-the-loop—this approach enables earlier validation of complex RPO and GNC autonomy. For our partners, this means faster feasibility assessments, reduced technical risk, and greater confidence long before hardware reaches the clean room.

Because the best way to de-risk autonomy in orbit
is to face reality early while still on the ground.

Stay tuned.

12/01/2026

🚀 European Space Agency - ESA and ClearSpace are kicking off the PRELUDE mission advancing safe and sustainable in-orbit operations 🌍🛰️

PRELUDE will demonstrate critical technologies for the future of space operations, including:
🔹 Close-proximity manoeuvres
🔹 High-precision relative navigation
🔹 Cooperative operations between two spacecraft

These capabilities pave the way for satellite inspection, life-extension, and future debris-removal missions ♻️✨

🎯 Targeting launch in 2027, PRELUDE bridges the gap between technology demonstration and operational in-orbit services, reinforcing Europe’s leadership in space safety. Big thanks to ESA Space Safety for the strong collaboration🚀

This marks a decisive step toward making space sustainability part of everyday space activity.
👉 Read the press release :
👉 Learn more about the PRELUDE mission :
👉 Be inspired by the mission profile video 🎥https://clearspace.odoo.com/r/xgr

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