Securing Humanity's Legacy in Space.
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The NGO Creating Sustainable Market Infrastructure for Debris Removal
Our mission is to serve as the primary market maker for space debris remediation - creating the funding mechanisms, policy frameworks, and commercial structures that enable viable debris removal at scale.
Over 1.2 million debris objects orbit Earth at speeds up to 28,000 km/h, threatening trillions in infrastructure. The European Space Agency confirms we've entered the Kessler syndrome - where debris populations grow through collisions even without new launches. Yet despite NASA's analysis showing remediation benefits outweighing costs by hundreds of times, viable commercial frameworks remain absent.
OpenSpace International is an initiative drawing from more than 50 space professionals from organizations including Astroscale, NASA, and The Exploration Company. We are mobilizing and uniting stakeholders - governments, agencies, operators, insurers, and investors - through five transformative initiatives that create the market infrastructure itself: policy frameworks, funding mechanisms, analytical tools, and commercial structures that make debris removal viable at scale.
Both private organizations and governments can contribute to preserving the €2.5 trillion in annual space economy benefits we stand to lose without coordinated action.
OPENSPACE
INTERNATIONAL
Five Transformative Initiatives
International Space Levy
Advocating for coordinated global taxation on spectrum ownership as an international framework agreed to by all spacefaring nations. 90% of funds raised are directed to financing space debris initiatives, with 10% retained by participating governments. This creates the financial engine enabling systematic remediation at scale rather than sporadic demonstration missions.
Funded Removal Missions
Using levy capital and Impact Assessment data, funds are directed to commissioning trial missions and issuing competitive RFPs for regular debris removal using proven approaches. This drives a healthy, cost-effective commercial market and establishes the infrastructure where none exists today.
Debris Remediation Consulting
Supporting individual space organizations to drive the market forward through targeted expertise in finding technical partners, securing clients, and increasing funding preparedness. Generating operational revenue while populating the market with capable providers ready to respond to RFPs and opportunities.
Operator Impact Assessment Platform
Developed with a major space tracking provider, this groundbreaking tool integrates conjunction analysis with financial modeling to quantify debris costs by operator and orbital region. By building the financial case with hard data, we demonstrate which objects must be removed and justify the economics of intervention.
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OpenSpace Ventures
Seed and Series A investment grants supporting the development of cheaper and more effective technologies for space debris removal. Bridging the gap between concept and commercial viability while attracting follow-on investment and ensuring a robust pipeline of innovative solutions.
THE BENEFITS OF
OPENSPACE INTERNATIONAL
Promote an ecosystem of space debris removal to benefit all current and future operators in space.
REDUCE RISKS TO ASSETS
Your support catalyzes commercial involvement and creates sustainable funding mechanisms that reduce collision risk for all operators - not just paying clients. By funding market-wide infrastructure rather than point solutions, you protect everyone's assets in orbit.
DATA-DRIVEN PRIORITIZATION
Our Operator Impact Assessment Platform quantifies debris costs with hard numbers, demonstrating which high-risk objects must be removed first. This evidence-based approach ensures funding targets the interventions with greatest impact, maximizing the value of every dollar invested.
OPENSPACE INTERNATIONAL LEVY
Our current approach is to lobby governments to adopt a tax on space spectrum ownership. This tax could be a mechanism to generate funds for the removal of existing debris. The tax would be transferred from the government (90% to the NGO, 10% to the government) to OpenSpace International, which then allocates the money to various projects and initiatives related to space debris removal.
ENCOURAGE AWARENESS
By becoming a trustee of OpenSpace International once the NGO is formed, you can help reinforce the current and future benefits that the space industry holds to humanity. Our initiative is committed to helping communicate this to the pubic through the message of addressing the rapid rise of dangerous space debris in Low Earth Orbit by highlighting what we stand to lose if we do not act in a coordinated manner.
POTENTIAL RECIPIENTS OF
DEBRIS REMOVAL RFPs
