Created: 2021-07-17
Updated: 2024-03-10
Company - Kurs Orbital
Product/Service - ARCap Module
- Classification
- In-Space Transportation
- Category
- On-Orbit Servicing
Transport Service (LEO-GEO)
Active Debris Removal (ADR)
In-Orbit Inspection
Space Tug
Hardware
Docking
- Fields
- In-Space Transportation
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- 2025
The company plans to launch a demonstration vehicle in 2023, Usov told SpaceNews.
Ukrainian Startup Raises Funding For In-Space Servicing Demo
- Ukrainian start-up Kurs Orbital has raised €3.7M($4M) to build and fly a prototype docking port for in-space servicing and debris removal missions.
- The company is a spin off from the Soviet-era Kiev Radio Factory, which used to build the autonomous Kurs docking system for Russia’s Soyuz and Progress spacecraft.
- The new funding comes from OTB Ventures, a leading European deep tech venture capital fund; Italian space-fund Galaxia; and In-Q-Tel, a US venture capital firm affiliated with the intelligence community.
- Kurs Orbital will use the money to build a prototype and flight model of their docking port that will be ready to fly by the end of 2025, cofounder and CEO Volodymyr Usov told Payload.
- “Our rendezvous and docking module is a standalone product that can be integrated with different types of spacecraft buses,” he said. “It uses a combination of different sensors including radar and laser range-finding that allows fully autonomous operations.”
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