ClearSpace
is leading the development of In-Orbit Services to shape the future of sustainable space operations.
Company
We believe in reusability, we believe that affordability drives disruption, and we believe that no progress is real unless it is sustainable.
In 2019, ClearSpace was selected by the European Space Agency to lead the first mission to remove debris from Orbit by 2025. Today ClearSpace has assembled a robust industrial team and is building up the path toward sustainable Space operations.

30+
ClearSpace employees
4 Experts
In our Advisory board
25+
Talented and proven engineers
Challenge club
Extended network of talented people
Our team
comes from agencies and leading space integrators and universities, bringing experience from a number space missions like Prisma, Avanti, TandemX, DeepSpace 2, Dawn, BepiColombo, EarthCARE, Exomars, MetOp-SG, IBDM (International Berthing and Docking Mechanism), OneWeb.
Leadership team

Luc Piguet
Management
ETML/HIEG-VD/EPFL MSC engineer and Stanford GSB alumni. 18 years of international field experience in B2B & B2G

Muriel Richard
Engineering
Caltech Alumni with 12 years on interplanetary missions at NASA JPL & 12 years at EPFL Space leading SwissCube & CleanSpace One Missions

Tim Maclay
Technology

Reyhaneh Nadjafi
Compliance & HR
Swiss Chartered Accountant, 32 years of business management, particularly audit, accounting & consulting
Advisory Board

Andreas Mortensen
Vice President for Research at EPFL. Expert in various fields linked with Mechanical Metallurgy and it’s processing.

Christophe Bonnal
Space debris expert at CNES and Chairman of the Space Debris Committee at International Academy of Astronautics

Jean-Jacques Dordain
General director of European Space Agency from 2003 to 2015, prior Executive Secretary at NASDA, now JAXA and Director of Launchers at ESA

Prof. Nicollier Claude
First Switzerland astronaut with European Space Agency and professor emeritus at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne