Innovation Labs

Ending waste at the frontier.

Where Return incubates moonshot programs that take our mission to end waste beyond the loading dock.

Initiatives
Clear Constellation

Our mission to end waste doesn't stop at the atmosphere.

Clear Constellation confronts one of the most overlooked waste problems of our time: the thousands of metric tons of debris orbiting the Earth. Through a national university design competition, we're challenging the next generation of engineers to bring recovery to orbit.

An initiative founded by Return co-founder Nate Morris.

Read the Clear Constellation brief
8,000
Metric tons of debris in orbit
17,000 mph
Typical speed of orbital debris

More initiatives from Innovation Labs are on the way.