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Space debris spotlight « Back to article | In this animation, catalogued space debris are shown accumulating around Earth in 4-year increments, including payloads, rocket bodies, and fragments. While the debris objects are not shown to scale, the representation of their density is accurate.
Credits: European Space Agency/ESA | |  |  | |
| | | | | Dr. Walter Flury heads the space debris research and policy advisory effort at the European Space Agency's Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany.
Credits: European Space Agency, ESA/ESOC | | | | |
| | | | Daily collision warning by email « Back to article | Sample of an automatically generated email message sent daily based on data held in the DISCOS database to ESA operations staff warning of potential collisions between ESA spacecraft and known space debris.
Credits: European Space Agency, ESA/ESOC | | | | |
| | | | Last update: 31 March 2005 | |
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