“Clearing the path forward for Humanity's next steps.”
Clerk exists because the debris problem has no natural owner. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty assigns debris to the nation that launched it — and no nation has the incentive to clean up what it cannot profit from.
We don't catch debris. We convince it to fall. Two proven physics principles — laser ablation and gas drag — working as one system. No capture. No contact. No exceptions.
Our timeline is not a roadmap. It is a statement of what is physically necessary given the current debris growth rate and the lag between orbital insertion and atmospheric decay.
The person behind it.
FOUNDER
Grade 12 student and TKS Innovator. Encountered the Kessler problem and couldn't find a satisfying answer to why nothing serious was being done about it. Built Clerk to be that answer.
The Kepler 13 system emerged from a simple observation: laser ablation is already demonstrated, and Earth's atmosphere already creates drag. Nobody had committed to connecting the two into a single scalable system.
What we believe.
Every decision traces back to a governing equation. If the math doesn't work, the product doesn't ship.
Grabbing things in orbit is expensive, dangerous, and doesn't scale. We build systems that act at a distance.
LEO is infrastructure for the next thousand years. We are not optimising for the next quarter.
Our target catalogues, operational parameters, and laser deployment schedules are public. We have nothing to hide and everything to explain.
We work on a problem that most people don't know exists
and that nobody has legal incentive to solve.
That requires a specific kind of obsession.
We hire physicists who write code, engineers who read
philosophy, and operators who understand that the window
to act on this problem is measured in decades not centuries.
We do not move fast and break things.
We move carefully and fix things.
The things we are fixing are in orbit.
If this problem keeps you
up at night, we should talk.
hello@clerk.space