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ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 140376 views 249 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 29199 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 15979 views 56 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 22358 views 57 likes

4-satellite Cluster mission

Enabling & Support

Salsa’s last dance targets reentry over South Pacific

26/01/2024 3057 views 31 likes

Cleaning space

Enabling & Support

Help ESA pave the way for a space circular economy

10/01/2024 3512 views 17 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 3748 views 61 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 10251 views 57 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

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

22/08/2023 16232 views 91 likes

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

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 16041 views 80 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 14876 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

Servicing spacecraft approaches a satellite

Enabling & Support

ESA moves ahead with In-Orbit Servicing missions

14/07/2023 7313 views 81 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 12191 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 3925 views 46 likes

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

21/11/2022 7664 views 48 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 32776 views 80 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

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 5945 views 79 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 5420 views 58 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 4593 views 64 likes

ESA invites ideas to open up in-orbit servicing market

01/04/2021 8702 views 69 likes

Process of capture

ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start…

01/12/2020 20757 views 143 likes

Plasma wind tunnel testing

Enabling & Support

Natural fibres threaded into satellites for safer missions

13/10/2020 5222 views 81 likes

Geostationary orbit

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 57703 views 187 likes

Hubble solar cell impact damage

Hubble's impactful life alongside space debris

30/04/2020 14256 views 71 likes

ClearSpace-1

ESA commissions world’s first space debris removal

09/12/2019 118107 views 417 likes

Melting satellite part

Melting a satellite, a piece at a time

17/06/2019 8459 views 69 likes

Propulsion for satellites

Enabling & Support

ESA responding to EU’s REACH chemical law

24/05/2019 3468 views 33 likes

ESA and the United Nations team up for space debris

24/05/2019 4418 views 6 likes

Space battery overcharge

Testing space batteries to destruction for cleaner skies

12/03/2019 8591 views 95 likes

Infrared and visible imaging of model satellite

ESA’s e.Deorbit debris removal mission reborn as servicing …

21/12/2018 14681 views 88 likes

Lighting up space debris

Enabling & Support

Art and space debris cross trajectories at Space Waste Lab

02/10/2018 3288 views 29 likes

Satellites and rocket bodies will eventually reenter the atmosphere

Clean Space Industrial Days: an event to guarantee the futu…

29/11/2017 978 views 2 likes

Space debris effects on the geostationary orbit

European conference on space debris risks and mitigation

04/04/2017 14904 views 35 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Enabling & Support

Anatomy of a debris incident

01/02/2017 9166 views 55 likes

Satellite break-up

Sending a satellite safely to sleep

11/11/2016 4194 views 38 likes

Reentering satellite

CleanSat disposal essential for swelling satellite populati…

21/09/2016 3356 views 41 likes

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

31/08/2016 54056 views 332 likes

CleanSat, reshaping future satellites

15/07/2016 1007 views 0 likes

Concept for future deorbit mission

e.Deorbit: Pushing the Boundaries of Space Technologies

11/07/2016 1896 views 3 likes

e.Deorbit closing on target satellite

Setting a satellite to catch a satellite

08/07/2016 25436 views 140 likes

ATV reentering atmosphere

Simulating reentries for safer satellites

24/02/2016 4456 views 35 likes

Space debris around Earth

Talking rubbish: anti-space debris discussion set for May

12/01/2016 2951 views 7 likes

Controlling robotic arm

Enabling & Support

2D zero-g testing for space robotics

21/12/2015 6607 views 51 likes

Testing in plasma wind tunnel

Go for the burn: how to melt a satellite

15/12/2015 9710 views 88 likes

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