Swiss-founded, Luxembourg-headquartered private company developing spacecraft and operations for satellite disposal, inspection, refuelling-enabled servicing, and GEO life extension.
Swiss-founded, Luxembourg-headquartered private company developing spacecraft and operations for satellite disposal, inspection, refuelling-enabled servicing, and GEO life extension.
ClearSpace is named as an early Swiss user of DPhi Space's satellite-based computing server; DPhi's mission aims to make computing infrastructure available to developers and early Swiss users such as ClearSpace.
OHB Sweden designs and manufactures the propulsion system for ClearSpace's spacecraft in the ClearSpace-1 mission (circa 2020).
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OHB Sweden supplies the propulsion system and performs final integration and testing of the satellite for the ClearSpace-1 debris removal mission (selected as key partner in 2020).
ClearSpace was awarded the ESA‑backed ClearSpace‑1 contract to remove a Vespa payload adapter (ClearSpace supplies ADR/active debris removal services to ESA under the ClearSpace‑1 program).
ClearSpace lists Intelsat among institutional and commercial operators that are customers of its in‑orbit servicing and debris‑removal capabilities (Intelsat referenced as a commercial operator/customer in public company profiles).
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ClearSpace program partners
Orbit Fab— design collaborator · program partner · 4 more roles8 connectionsTell me more
ClearSpace has received support from Orbit Fab in the design of its CLEAR mission so the service vehicle can be refuelled and reused; Orbit Fab’s refuelling architecture and fuel-transfer expertise directly enable ClearSpace’s vehicle reusability.
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ClearSpace and Orbit Fab signed a memorandum of understanding to combine Orbit Fab’s refuelling architecture with ClearSpace’s rendezvous and docking technology to enable in-orbit refuelling of ClearSpace’s service vehicles (e.g., CLEAR mission) and extend mission reuse.
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ClearSpace is partnering with Orbit Fab to integrate RAFTI refueling interfaces on ClearSpace spacecraft and to develop an in‑space refueling service; ClearSpace will host Orbit Fab hardware and provide spacecraft hosting/operations to enable refueling services.
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ClearSpace maintains a multi-faceted strategic partnership and MoU with Orbit Fab to co-develop enabling technologies, pair Orbit Fab fuel depots with ClearSpace shuttles, and integrate refuelling on ClearSpace missions (including UK Space Agency-funded CLEAR/ADR), building on prior collaboration, announced January 2024.
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Orbit Fab provides refuelling architecture and planned fuel delivery services to support ClearSpace’s missions (e.g., CLEAR) by enabling refuelling and reuse of ClearSpace service vehicles.
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Orbit Fab partners with ClearSpace (alongside others) on the REFUEL.ME refuelling mission extension building on CLEAR (UK-funded, announced ~2024).
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Orbit Fab supplies RAFTI refuelling ports/interfaces and equips ClearSpace’s debris removal/servicer satellites (including CLEAR mission) with refuelling capabilities to enable reuse and extended operations under UK Space Agency funding.
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Orbit Fab supplies RAFTI refueling hardware and hydrazine refueling capability and is partnering with ClearSpace to integrate RAFTI on ClearSpace spacecraft to develop an in‑space refueling service (partnership announced in coverage of a joint refueling effort).
ESA awarded the ClearSpace‑1 active debris removal contract and is a program partner/customer for ClearSpace's ClearSpace‑1 mission (ESA contract selection/publication for debris removal mission).
Astroscale partners with ClearSpace and D-Orbit in the UK-funded RPO Regulatory Sandbox consortium for rendezvous and proximity operations (ongoing as of 2025).
D-Orbit partners with ClearSpace and Astroscale in the UK-funded RPO Regulatory Sandbox consortium for rendezvous and proximity operations (ongoing as of 2025).
OMEGA is welcomed by ClearSpace as the first partner to Clean Up Space (announced ~2020).
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Omega (as luxury watchmaker and corporate strategic partner) provides corporate partnership, branding, and visionary support to ClearSpace for its space debris removal missions, including the ClearSpace-1 mission; announced January 2022 and ongoing as the first named elite partner.
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Government awards & missions
600 T Space Investments— series-a-investorTell me more
600 T Space Investments invested in ClearSpace's €26.7 million Series A financing round. · Series A financing
ClearSpace lists 600 T Space Investments among the Series A participants.
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Happiness Capital— series-a-investorTell me more
Happiness Capital invested in ClearSpace's €26.7 million Series A financing round. · Series A financing
ClearSpace lists Happiness Capital among the Series A participants.
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In-Q-Tel— series-a-investorTell me more
In-Q-Tel invested in ClearSpace's €26.7 million Series A financing round. · Series A financing
ClearSpace lists In-Q-Tel among the Series A participants.
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Lakestar— series-a-investorTell me more
Lakestar invested in ClearSpace's €26.7 million Series A financing round. · Series A financing
ClearSpace lists Lakestar among the Series A participants.
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Luxembourg Future Fund— series-a-investorTell me more
The Luxembourg Future Fund invested in ClearSpace's €26.7 million Series A financing round. · Series A financing
ClearSpace lists Luxembourg Future Fund among the Series A participants.
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Swisscom Ventures— lead-series-a-investorTell me more
Swisscom Ventures co-led ClearSpace's €26.7 million Series A financing round. · Series A financing
ClearSpace identifies Swisscom Ventures as one of the two lead investors in the completed Series A round.
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OTB Ventures— lead-series-a-investorTell me more
OTB Ventures co-led ClearSpace's €26.7 million Series A financing round. · Series A financing
ClearSpace identifies OTB Ventures as one of the two lead investors in the completed Series A round.
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UK Space Agency— mission-study-customer-and-funderTell me more
The UK Space Agency selected and funded ClearSpace's CLEAR concept and design work for a UK active-debris-removal mission. · CLEAR (Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal)
ClearSpace identifies UKSA as its CLEAR partner, while UK government material identifies ClearSpace as selected to develop the UK's active-debris-removal mission concept.
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PROBA-1— target-client-spacecraft-for-removal-serviceTell me more
ClearSpace's ADRIOS ClearSpace-1 servicer is being developed to rendezvous with, capture and deorbit ESA-owned PROBA-1. · ADRIOS ClearSpace-1
ESA identifies PROBA-1 as the ESA-owned, non-functional target object for the current ClearSpace-1 mission.
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ADRIOS— programme-contractorTell me more
ClearSpace performs the close-proximity and capture-operations work for the ADRIOS ClearSpace-1 active-debris-removal programme. · ADRIOS ClearSpace-1
ESA identifies ClearSpace-1 as an ADRIOS cornerstone mission and identifies ClearSpace's operational role in the successor consortium.
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