ESA - Space Debris - Archive

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Automating collision avoidance

22/10/2019 21388 views 60 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

AI challenged to stave off collisions in space

09/10/2019 7992 views 51 likes

Measuring cyclones

ESA spacecraft dodges large constellation

03/09/2019 35214 views 421 likes

Melting satellite part

Melting a satellite, a piece at a time

17/06/2019 8465 views 69 likes

Checking out collision effects between two satellites

Space Debris Training Course 2019 prepares university stude…

28/05/2019 3017 views 21 likes

ESA and the United Nations team up for space debris

24/05/2019 4423 views 6 likes

Earth observation missions

Enabling & Support

Mission control 'saves science'

17/05/2019 5549 views 60 likes

Recognising sustainable behaviour

06/05/2019 12179 views 82 likes

Space Safety

Enabling & Support

Innovative ideas to safeguard Earth

02/05/2019 1360 views 3 likes

Rocket break-up provides rare chance to test debris formati…

12/04/2019 10002 views 100 likes

ESA Columbus module

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 7599 views 94 likes

Lighting up space debris

Enabling & Support

Art and space debris cross trajectories at Space Waste Lab

02/10/2018 3292 views 29 likes

Reducing debris creation

‘Space debris – a journey to Earth’ nominated for design aw…

12/09/2018 6159 views 32 likes

Space Debris

Latest report on space junk

06/07/2018 15167 views 88 likes

Exploiting Synergies - NEO and Debris Detection Conference

Asteroids and space debris come together for the first time

13/06/2018 4208 views 18 likes

Satellite collisions create debris

Enabling & Support

Space smash: simulating when satellites collide

24/04/2018 13531 views 83 likes

ESA reentry expertise

30/03/2018 26350 views 133 likes

Debris objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO)

Applications now open for the Space Debris Training Course

15/01/2018 16352 views 44 likes

ESOC Main Control Room

ESA joins reentry campaign

06/11/2017 21432 views 54 likes

Satellite break-up

Call for a sustainable future in space

21/04/2017 9281 views 79 likes

Satellite break-up

International consensus on debris threat

21/04/2017 4777 views 9 likes

Space debris effects on the geostationary orbit

European conference on space debris risks and mitigation

04/04/2017 14936 views 35 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Enabling & Support

Anatomy of a debris incident

01/02/2017 9171 views 55 likes

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

31/08/2016 54078 views 332 likes

ESOC control room

Enabling & Support

European space operations experts at the Berlin Air and Spa…

31/05/2016 2115 views 12 likes

Returning to Earth

Reentry data will help improve prediction models

23/10/2015 54937 views 115 likes

Solar sail

Scuttling satellites to save space

26/03/2015 9587 views 91 likes

DMSP satellite

ESA experts assess risk from exploded satellite

04/03/2015 13145 views 85 likes

The growing problem of space debris

CleanSat: new satellite technologies for cleaner low orbits

12/01/2015 20786 views 106 likes

ESA control room

Steering ESA satellites clear of space debris

30/10/2014 7335 views 48 likes

Green laser shooting at the Moon

SocialSpace Optics: watching, communicating, connecting

05/09/2014 5550 views 30 likes

Space debris objects in orbit

ESA makes space debris software available online

25/06/2014 23345 views 32 likes

Harpooning in space

Whale of a target: harpooning space debris

24/06/2014 15779 views 78 likes

Gossamer deorbit sail

Sailing satellites into safe retirement

20/12/2013 13387 views 110 likes

Holger Krag

The right response at the right time: Holger Krag interview

21/08/2013 3963 views 20 likes

Concept for future deorbit mission

Global experts agree action needed on space debris

25/04/2013 18698 views 78 likes

Cleaning space

Cleaning space

23/04/2013 7195 views 70 likes

Distribution of debris

Focus on growing threat of space debris

18/04/2013 12373 views 43 likes

Space debris objects in orbit

Enabling & Support

Call for Media: Conference on space debris risks and mitiga…

12/04/2013 1330 views 8 likes

Space debris objects in orbit

Enabling & Support

Space debris hazards spotlighted at conference

10/12/2012 4326 views 6 likes

Test radar installed in Spain

ESA deploys first orbital debris test radar in Spain

15/10/2012 5488 views 3 likes

A purpose-built radar system will scan low Earth orbit for dangerous debris objects

European industry develops space safety radar

12/09/2012 4235 views 5 likes

ISS with ATV Johannes Kepler and Shuttle Endeavour docked

Space Station manoeuvres to avoid space debris

31/01/2012 1545 views 1 likes

ESOC: home to ESA's mission operations

Space debris experts confirm estimate for Phobos–Grunt reen…

25/01/2012 1553 views 1 likes

Phobos-Grunt orbiter and lander

ESA coordinates international satellite reentry campaign

12/01/2012 1645 views 0 likes

Artist's impression of UARS

European experts follow satellite reentry

27/09/2011 1455 views 0 likes

ERS-2

Enabling & Support

ERS satellite missions complete after 20 years

12/09/2011 3621 views 1 likes

Enabling & Support

Experts speak 2: video highlights from ESA's space debris c…

02/04/2009 813 views 0 likes

Protected orbital regions

Enabling & Support

Key findings from the 5th European Conference on Space Debr…

02/04/2009 1420 views 0 likes

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