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Large satellite constellations in low Earth orbit have opened up exciting new possibilities for space-based services, but they also come with significant challenges such as dealing with failed satellites that cannot perform their end-of-life disposal. Constellation-servicing active debris removal (ADR) is a potential solution to deal with these satellites. Among the many challenges to establish such a service, is the planning of the sequence of satellites to be visited for removal, depending on the characteristics of the constellation, of the servicing spacecraft, and the number of failed satellites. An Open Access paper (https://lnkd.in/dwqFGq2D) recently published in Advanced in Space Research by Adrián Barea and Hodei Urrutxua from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Juan Luis Gonzalo Gómez and Camilla Colombo from Politecnico di Milano proposes a framework for preliminary ADR mission analysis, based on constraint programming techniques. The framework quantifies the performance of a set of predefined mission choices with respect to the mission requirements. Moreover, if a poor performance is shown or if the mission choices have not been previously obtained, appropriate mission choices are generated so that the desired performance is optimised. #DAER #AerospacePoliMi COMPASS PoliMi