Japanese corporate group and satellite communication and multi-channel pay TV company Sky Perfect Jsat announced it has established a new firm Orbital Lasers to develop a laser-based space debris removal technology to eliminate more than 100 million particles of space debris larger than one millimetre in Earth’s orbit.
Airbus, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, NTT Docomo, and Sky Perfect JSAT are studying the feasibility of high-altitude platform stations (HAPS)-based connectivity services as part of a future space-based wireless connectivity ecosystem.