Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.
The overriding goal is to improve ways to spot, characterise and track objects.
"We had 26 proposals come to us and I think we've selected a good cross-section of ideas in the seven companies we're supporting," he told BBC News. The company recently launched a vehicle to carry and deploy a clutch of small satellites. This vehicle uses cameras to photograph its surroundings and to map the stars for the purposes of navigation."One of the challenges in using star trackers is filtering out objects that are not supposed to be there - obviously, because you're trying to compare what you can see against a star catalogue," explained D-Orbit's Simon Reid.
Both have valuable assets and interests in orbit that need protecting. And for the UK taxpayer, this investment was recently deepened with the purchase out of bankruptcy of the OneWeb satellite broadband company.
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