JUJUME, LLC — Active Debris Removal

Clearing orbit for what comes next

JUJUME designs, builds, and operates robotic spacecraft that rendezvous with, capture, and de-orbit the debris and dead satellites crowding Earth orbit — clearing the way for the satellites, crewed missions, and science the world increasingly depends on.

JUJUME, LLC Active Debris Removal Los Angeles, CA

The mission

The mission

Earth orbit is filling up. Decades of launches have left behind spent rocket bodies, fragments from collisions and break-ups, and satellites that have reached the end of their working lives — all of it circling the planet at speeds where even a small object carries enormous destructive energy.

Every defunct object compounds the risk to everything still working above us. JUJUME exists to reverse that trend: to physically remove orbital debris and non-operational satellites, advance space sustainability, protect increasingly crowded orbits, and preserve orbital safety for satellite operators, human spaceflight, and the scientific missions that expand what we know.

We approach the problem as a discipline, not a stunt. Our work is cost-effective and environmentally conscious by design, built to serve clients across borders and to scale with the congestion it is meant to relieve. JUJUME is a participant in the global space-sustainability movement — engaged with the international space community through industry consortia, conferences, and partnerships — and our customers reflect that reach: commercial satellite operators, government bodies, and national space agencies.

Commercial Operators Government Bodies Space Agencies
01

Any Object

Spent rocket bodies, fragmentation debris, and non-operational satellites — cooperative or tumbling, and never designed to be caught.

02

Any Orbit

From low Earth orbit through higher regimes, wherever risk concentrates — meeting objects in the locations they actually occupy.

03

Any Time

Mission-ready capture windows planned across the orbital calendar, so removal happens when and where it matters most.

CONGESTED CLEARED
ConceptCapture & remove OutcomeSustainable orbit ReachCross-border

What we do

Services Provided

Two principal service lines — de-orbiting at end of life and removing high-risk debris — supported by the rendezvous, capture, and operations capabilities that make every removal mission possible. Select a line to read more.

For satellite-constellation operators, JUJUME provides controlled de-orbiting of spacecraft that have reached the end of their working lives. Rather than leaving a dead satellite to drift as a hazard for years or decades, our servicer rendezvouses with it, captures it, and brings it down on a deliberate, predictable path.

The service is built to help operators comply with the disposal regulations that increasingly govern orbital activity, and to maintain long-term orbital safety in the shells where their fleets fly. Freeing those crowded orbital lanes protects the rest of the operator's constellation — and everyone else's — from the cascade of risk that a single uncontrolled object can set off.

  • Regulatory-compliant disposal
  • Controlled, predictable re-entry
  • Fleet & orbital-shell protection
  • Cooperative & uncooperative targets

Not all debris is equal. A relatively small number of large, massive, or poorly-placed derelict objects account for an outsized share of the collision risk in orbit — and a single break-up among them could multiply the debris population for generations.

JUJUME provides targeted removal of these high-risk objects, supporting government agencies in their work toward cleaner, safer orbits and broader space-sustainability goals. By prioritizing the objects that matter most, we help national programs convert sustainability policy into physical results on orbit.

  • Highest-consequence targets first
  • Break-up risk reduction
  • National sustainability goals
  • Agency & government missions

Before anything can be captured, it has to be safely reached. JUJUME's emphasis on rendezvous and proximity operations is what lets our spacecraft approach, inspect, and station-keep alongside objects that were never built to cooperate — and many of which are tumbling unpredictably.

This is the difficult, foundational work of active debris removal: closing the final distance to an uncooperative target with the precision and control needed to grasp it without creating more debris. It underpins every other service we offer.

  • Approach to uncooperative objects
  • Inspection & characterization
  • Precise relative station-keeping
  • Safe close-proximity control

At the center of JUJUME's technical approach is a soft robotic capture system — a compliant grasping mechanism we have been developing as a core piece of our technology. Where rigid mechanisms demand precise, cooperative interfaces, a soft system can conform to the awkward geometry of an object that was never designed to be caught.

That compliance is what makes capturing tumbling, uncooperative debris tractable: the system absorbs and accommodates motion instead of fighting it. Engineering of the capture system has advanced through formal milestones, including the completion of preliminary and critical design reviews.

  • Compliant, conforming grasp
  • Built for uncooperative targets
  • PDR & CDR complete
  • Core flight technology

The same rendezvous, proximity-operations, and capture capabilities that let us remove a derelict object also open the door to servicing healthy ones. JUJUME has identified in-space refueling as an adjacent capability of clear interest — extending mission life by delivering propellant to spacecraft already in orbit.

It is a natural extension of an active-debris-removal platform: the hard parts — safely reaching and connecting with another spacecraft — are shared. Refueling turns the same technology from one that ends missions cleanly into one that can prolong them.

  • Extends spacecraft mission life
  • Shared RPO & docking heritage
  • Servicing-economy potential

Every removal is a mission in its own right. JUJUME provides the end-to-end design and operations that wrap around the hardware — defining the target, planning the trajectory and capture windows, and flying the campaign from deployment through controlled disposal.

Because we design, build, and commercially operate the spacecraft ourselves, mission planning and flight operations stay tightly coupled to the vehicles doing the work — across different orbital regimes and across the schedule on which our customers need objects gone.

  • Target selection & mission design
  • Flight dynamics & capture windows
  • Deployment-to-disposal operations
  • Owned & operated end to end

The hardware

Flight System

Two complementary spacecraft, built to operate as one — and the soft robotic capture system at the heart of both. Together they deliver mission-ready removal operations.

01Capture & servicing vehicle

The Servicer

The servicer is the vehicle that does the close work. It performs the rendezvous and proximity operations needed to safely approach an uncooperative target, deploys the soft robotic capture system to grasp it, and then carries out controlled de-orbiting — bringing the object down on a deliberate path.

It is engineered around the hardest part of active debris removal: making contact with something that is tumbling, was never meant to be caught, and cannot help you catch it.

Soft robotic capture Rendezvous & proximity ops Controlled de-orbit
SOFT GRIPPER RPO SENSOR SOLAR ARRAY AVIONICS BUS
02Orbital mother vehicle

The Carrier

The carrier is the mother vehicle. It transports and deploys the servicer, providing the propulsion, power, and reach to position our capture capability where the targets actually are — across different orbital locations rather than a single fixed shell.

Operating as a complementary pair, the carrier and servicer turn a single capture mechanism into a system that can be delivered, again and again, to the orbits that need clearing.

Servicer deployment Cross-orbit reach Propulsion & power
DOCKED SERVICER SOLAR WING ENGINE PROPULSION BUS
03Core capture technology

Soft Robotic Capture

The capture system is what lets JUJUME grasp the ungraspable. Soft, compliant, and forgiving, it envelops and conforms to objects of varying types — gripping a derelict rocket body or a defunct satellite without the precise interfaces a rigid mechanism would require.

It is the core piece of technology we have been developing, and its engineering maturity is real: the system has progressed through the completion of preliminary and critical design reviews — formal gates that confirm the design is sound and ready to advance.

PDR complete CDR complete Compliant grasp
COMPLIANT FINGERS CAPTURE BASE TARGET

Where we are

Program Progress

JUJUME is an early-stage, venture-backed startup building hardware, momentum, and a team. A snapshot of where the program stands today.

01 Preliminary Design Review Capture-system design matured through its preliminary review gate, confirming the concept. Complete
02 Critical Design Review The soft robotic capture system passed its critical design review — design judged sound and ready to advance. Complete
03 Pre-Seed Fundraising Completed a pre-seed round; JUJUME is venture-backed and building toward flight. Complete
04 Innovation & Incubation Base Based at a major innovation and incubation center supporting space-technology ventures. Active
05 International Space Community Engaged across borders through industry consortia, conferences, and partnerships. Active
06 Building the Team Recruiting engineering and mission talent to advance our debris-removal missions. Open

Get in touch

Make Contact.

Whether you operate a constellation, steward a national space program, or want to help build the hardware — tell us what you're trying to clear. We're also hiring engineering and mission talent to advance our debris-removal missions.

Headquarters
JUJUME, LLC
3705 W Pico Blvd #639
Los Angeles, CA 90019

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