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ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 140315 views 249 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 29186 views 71 likes

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 15972 views 56 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 22350 views 57 likes

4-satellite Cluster mission

Enabling & Support

Salsa’s last dance targets reentry over South Pacific

26/01/2024 3049 views 31 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 3745 views 61 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 10245 views 57 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 18495 views 83 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

Objects detected in the vicinity of ClearSpace-1 debris rem…

22/08/2023 16223 views 91 likes

CLIP: Simulating Aeolus’s demise: a bird’s eye view

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 15986 views 80 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 14873 views 134 likes

Aeolus teams take part in the first ever assisted reentry simulations at ESA mission control

Enabling & Support

Simulating Aeolus’s return: mission control feels the heat

18/07/2023 4677 views 89 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 12186 views 190 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus’ fiery demise to set standard for safe reentry

08/05/2023 10350 views 166 likes

Measuring cyclones

Trailblazing Aeolus mission winding down

18/04/2023 7964 views 107 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

Making space more sustainable, one rating at a time

27/03/2023 3919 views 46 likes

European space sector commits: Earth is ours, we must cheri…

21/11/2022 7663 views 48 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

ESA’s site for laser and quantum links marks 25 years

18/11/2022 2273 views 52 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 26216 views 181 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 32754 views 80 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 9398 views 65 likes

Tenerife, Canary Islands

Earth from Space: Tenerife, Canary Islands

18/02/2022 13314 views 60 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 9728 views 111 likes

Students attend Online Space Debris Training Course

Calling university students to participate in the Online Sp…

04/02/2022 9343 views 28 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 15066 views 130 likes

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 8738 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Listen to: ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 1406 views 23 likes

Collision Warning

When debris disaster strikes

18/11/2021 6514 views 89 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8210 views 56 likes

Is this what spacecraft will look like in the future?

Space sustainability rating to shine light on debris problem

17/06/2021 7417 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5449 views 46 likes

Students log on for ESA Academy’s Online Space Debris Train…

10/06/2021 1928 views 17 likes

The scales of the space debris problem

ESA's Space Environment Report 2021

27/05/2021 20664 views 67 likes

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 5943 views 79 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 5419 views 58 likes

The growing problem of space debris

Looking back on a rubbish week

27/04/2021 2004 views 8 likes

André Kuipers

ESA astronaut André Kuipers on sheltering from space debris

22/04/2021 2443 views 53 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 4592 views 64 likes

Space Debris

Join the Online Space Debris Training Course 2021

26/02/2021 11596 views 39 likes

Geostationary orbit

ESA and UNOOSA illustrate space debris problem

10/02/2021 9904 views 126 likes

What are satellites up against when it comes to space debris?

ESA & UNOOSA space debris infographics and podcast

10/02/2021 10318 views 9 likes

Iodine thruster used to change the orbit of a small satellite for the first time ever

Iodine thruster could slow space junk accumulation

22/01/2021 7109 views 194 likes

Process of capture

ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start…

01/12/2020 20748 views 143 likes

Geostationary orbit

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 57670 views 187 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

First laser detection of space debris in daylight

04/08/2020 11765 views 86 likes

Online group photo

ESA Academy’s Space Debris Training Course 2020 goes online!

25/06/2020 2148 views 3 likes

Distribution of space debris around Earth

The cost of space debris

07/05/2020 29089 views 82 likes

Hubble solar cell impact damage

Hubble's impactful life alongside space debris

30/04/2020 14253 views 71 likes

Students with their certificates

Join the Online Space Debris Training Course 2020

28/04/2020 10031 views 30 likes

ClearSpace-1

ESA commissions world’s first space debris removal

09/12/2019 118080 views 417 likes

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