{"id":674157,"date":"2020-11-26T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674157"},"modified":"2020-11-26T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T07:30:00","slug":"call-for-media-esa-and-clearspace-sa-sign-contract-for-worlds-first-debris-removal-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674157","title":{"rendered":"Call for Media: ESA and ClearSpace SA sign contract for world\u2019s first debris removal mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release N\u00b0 26\u20132020<\/p>\n<p>ESA is signing an \u20ac86 million contract with an industrial team led by the Swiss start-up <a href=\"https:\/\/clearspace.today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ClearSpace\u00a0SA<\/a> to purchase a unique service: the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit. As a result, in 2025, ClearSpace SA will launch the first active debris removal mission, ClearSpace-1, which will rendezvous, capture and bring down for reentry a Vespa payload adapter. Journalists are invited to follow an <b>online round table for media on Tuesday, 1 December, at 13:30 CET. <\/b>Mission experts will give an overview of the project status, explain the ambitious mission design and detail the next steps leading to launch.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Newsroom\/Press_Releases\/Call_for_Media_ESA_and_ClearSpace_SA_sign_contract_for_world_s_first_debris_removal_mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Call for Media: ESA and ClearSpace SA sign contract for world\u2019s first debris removal mission<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release N\u00b0 26\u20132020 ESA is signing an \u20ac86 million contract with an industrial team led by the Swiss start-up ClearSpace\u00a0SA to purchase a unique service: the first removal of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}