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Mission type | Active debris removal |
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Operator | ESA |
Spacecraft properties | |
Launch mass | 1,600 kilograms (3,500 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 2025 (planned)[1] |
Rocket | Vega |
Launch site | ELA-1, Guiana Space Centre |
Contractor | Arianespace |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Deorbit (planned) |
Capture of derelict satellite | |
e.Deorbit was a planned European Space Agency active space debris removal mission developed as a part of their Clean Space initiative.[2][3] The launch was planned for 2025 on board a Vega launch vehicle.[1][4][5] Funding of the mission was stopped in 2018[6] in favor of the ClearSpace-1 mission, which is now under development.[7]