LA PLATA, Maryland — Space debris removal and satellite life extension service provider Astroscale expects 7-8% of the Eutelsat OneWeb satellites launched with its magnetic docking plates will fail in their attempts to deorbit on their own, resulting in Astroscale sending up debris-removal spacecraft to bring them down at a fee of $8 million to $13 million per satellite.
Rendezvousing with dead satellites and rocket stages in low Earth orbit is one of the two most-promising business lines for Astroscale, whose stock-market introduction in June was . . .
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