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January 19, 2023

Cleaning up Elon Musk’s mess: This space waste startup has raised a €26.7m Series A

ClearSpace is working on the first-ever mission to to remove a moving, noncooperative object from space


Zosia Wanat

4 min read

Artistic impression of the ClearSpace-1 Mission capturing the space debris.© ClearSpace

Much of the world’s future economy depends on satellites — everything from the internet, goods shipping and autonomous cars to climate change monitoring and weather prediction. Citigroup predicts that the space industry could reach $1tn in annual revenue by 2040.

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The ClearSpace team under a structure prototype of the capture system robotic arm_ full size
The ClearSpace team under a prototype of the capture system's robotic arm
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Zosia Wanat

Zosia Wanat was a senior reporter at Sifted. She covered the CEE region and policy. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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