RISE places focus on space sustainability

Adolfo Urso, Minister of Enterprises & Made in Italy (second from left) is joined by Holger Krag, Head of the ESA Space Safety Programme Office, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, Teodoro Valente, President of the Italian Space Agency, and Luca Rossettini, CEO and Founder of D-Orbit for a panel on RISE - ESA's first in-orbit servicing mission. RISE is a commercial in-orbit servicing mission expected to launch in 2028 that will demonstrate that it can safely rendezvous and dock to a geostationary client satellite. After verifying that it meets all the performance standards, D-Orbit will start commercial life extension services for geostationary satellites.