[1] The company is developing life extension, in-situ space situational awareness, end-of-life and active debris removal solutions.

The primary purpose of the ground station is to enable the operation of ELSA-d.[7] On 24 July 2018, Astroscale received a £4 million grant from the Government of the United Kingdom and established the National In-orbit Servicing Control Centre Facility at the Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell, Oxfordshire.

The facility will support advanced robotics activities in the very hostile environment of space, specifically enabling the provision of a commercial service for de-orbiting small satellites.

[10] With an additional US$30 million secured in an extension of its Series D investment round, Astroscale announced its plans to expand its United States presence, focusing on business development, policy influence and technology growth.

[11] On 3 June 2020, Astroscale U.S. Inc. announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the intellectual property and other assets and to hire certain members of the staff of Effective Space Solutions R&D Ltd., an Israeli satellite life-extension and servicing company.

[15] Between 2015 and 2017 Astroscale designed, built, tested and launched a 25 kg micro-lite satellite called IDEA OSG 1, an In-situ Debris Environment Analysis mission.

This first phase will be demonstrated by the end of the Japan Fiscal Year 2022 and will focus on data acquisition on an upper stage Japanese rocket body.

Astroscale will be responsible for the manufacturing, launch and operations of the satellite that will characterize the rocket body, acquiring and delivering movement observational data to better understand the debris environment.