Autonomy and operational concept for self-removal of spacecraft: Status detection, removal triggering and passivation

The growing population of space debris is posing a threat to future spacecraft in Earth orbit. The technology for self-removal of spacecraft, TeSeR, is an innovative project of eleven European partners coordinated by Airbus Defense & Space within the HORIZON2020 framework of the European Commission with the goal to develop a removal module that can be carried into orbit by future spacecraft of any size and mass into any orbit, interconnected...