Over 27,000 tracked objects and an estimated 500,000 untracked fragments large enough to mission-kill a satellite are already in Earth orbit — already at velocity, already positioned. Overby Industries reframes the orbital debris crisis as the largest pre-positioned raw material stockpile in near-Earth space.
Debris in Earth orbit ranges from intact defunct satellites down to paint-fleck fragments travelling at orbital velocity — a size range no single capture method can handle. Overby reclamation pods carry a layered toolkit and select the right method for each target rather than forcing every object through the same process.
Every reclamation operation runs under the Space Zero-Waste Standard — material captured stays captured, and nothing recovered is ever released back into orbit.
Reclamation pods receive target vectors from ground-based and onboard debris tracking networks, executing rendezvous burns to match velocity with the target object before any capture attempt begins.
Onboard sensors classify the target — intact satellite, fragmentation cloud, or loose debris field — and select the appropriate capture method: soft-capture net, magnetic grapple, or wide-area collection sweep.
Soft-capture nets envelop intact defunct satellites without generating secondary fragmentation. Magnetic grapple arms pull ferrous debris directly. Fine fragmentation clouds are swept using expandable containment architecture derived from the same bagging concepts used in asteroid mining.
Captured material is stabilised against tumbling and preliminarily sorted — metallic, composite, and electronic fractions separated onboard before compaction, maximising the value of the downstream material stream.
A compaction press reduces captured debris to standardised shielding-block dimensions or transfer-canister form, eliminating the collision risk of an intact captured object drifting loose again.
Compacted material transfers to the cislunar depot or directly into the ISRU feedstock pipeline, closing the loop between orbital cleanup and productive material use.
Reclamation revenue comes from direct service contracts as well as the downstream material stream — the same pod fleet serves satellite operators, launch providers, and the ISRU pipeline simultaneously.
Dedicated orbital lane clearance for satellite operators and launch providers. Overby pods sweep defined inclination bands and altitude shells on contract, delivering clear operational corridors and collision risk reports.
Full recovery and processing of customer-specified defunct satellite assets. The customer receives material credit against future Overby resource purchases and is relieved of deorbit liability entirely.
Rapid-response reclamation deployment following on-orbit fragmentation events, containing and collecting expanding debris clouds before they cascade into additional collisions — preventing Kessler Syndrome progression.
Standing autonomous operations across high-traffic LEO shells. Recovered material enters the ISRU feedstock pipeline directly, generating revenue through downstream material sales rather than direct contracts.