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In recent times, the issue of space traffic has become a priority for the European Space Agency because of the threat posed by the increasing amount of debris orbiting the Earth.

Decommissioned or abandoned satellites, parts of rocket boosters and solar panels, and even simple nuts and bolts are orbiting hundreds of kilometres above our planet and moving at speeds of up to 28,000 kilometres per hour, posing an increasingly high risk to current and future space missions.

This is the problem being addressed by ClearSpace, a Switzerland-based deep tech company that's on a mission to make space - and particularly Earth's orbit - vastly more sustainable.

At the recent OTB Ventures Summit in Warsaw, we caught up with Luc Piguet, co-founder and CEO of ClearSpace, to describe in more detail the nature of the challenge, and what it takes to remove junk from space, and its ambitious plans for the future.

Have a listen below or on the EIC Scaling Club podcast page.

 

About the EIC Scaling Club

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The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 100+ European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.

The top 100 European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programmes, and beyond.

The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.

 

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