Cosmoserve Active Debris Removal Technology to take off with Vikram Skyroot

Cosmoserve said it is taking the first step to build critical orbital infrastructure that will help create a safer, more sustainable and commercially viable space ecosystem. | Photo credit: Arrangement

Cosmoserve Space, an active debris removal (ADR) technology startup, said its first demonstration of the orbital technology will be attached aboard Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1, whose approved launch window is between July 12 and August 4.

Mission Embrace, as the project is called, will attempt the world’s first demonstration of soft robotic capture in orbit. With it, the company will take the first step toward building critical orbital infrastructure that will help create a safer, more sustainable and commercially viable space ecosystem, Cosmoserve said.

Mission Embrace will attempt the world’s first demonstration of soft robotic capture in orbit. | Photo credit: Arrangement

“We developed this technology from concept to ready-to-fly hardware in four months at a company that is less than a year old without compromising technical sophistication,” Cosmoserve Space Founder and CEO Chiranjeevi Phanindra.

The mission is an important milestone in advancing technologies that will enable orbital sustainability and space debris disposal while demonstrating how quickly India’s private space ecosystem can innovate through collaboration, he said in a statement on Monday.

As satellite constellations continue to expand and orbital congestion increases, technologies that enable the capture and disposal of defunct spacecraft will become essential for future space operations. The company is focused on building scalable technologies for ADR and in-orbit servicing, Cosmoserve said.

At the heart of its offering is a dual-spacecraft system in which a robotic service spacecraft is able to intercept and remove malfunctioning satellites at about a tenth of the cost of any comparable solution available today. The soft robotic capture mechanism is a technology designed to gently capture unprepared and uncooperative objects in orbit—exactly the conditions found around dead satellites. Mission Embrace will test capture technology in space for the first time.

Published – 06 Jul 2026 23:52 IST