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ESA Space Debris project - Draco

Draco mission made for destruction

24/09/2024 1833 views 35 likes

ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1

Asteroid 2024 RW1 impact – ESA analysis

09/09/2024 3980 views 16 likes

Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

06/09/2024 7793 views 47 likes

Hera departs ESA test centre

Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre

02/09/2024 1644 views 18 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Watching Salsa’s reentry live from the sky

26/08/2024 5061 views 30 likes

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

31/07/2024 3372 views 49 likes

Hera inter-satellite link with Juventas CubeSat

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio

24/07/2024 1180 views 3 likes

Space Debris

ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 9962 views 44 likes

ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis

16/07/2024 21816 views 131 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

NASA selects US scientists to join ESA’s Hera mission

28/06/2024 772 views 1 likes

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC

27/06/2024 2123 views 23 likes

GOCE in orbit

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 3541 views 22 likes

Near-Earth objects

Two large asteroids safely pass Earth just 42 hours apart

24/06/2024 31011 views 42 likes

Hera and CubeSats in Maxwell chamber

Hera and its CubeSats speak with mission control

13/06/2024 2169 views 11 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Dozens of companies, institutions and NGOs sign the Zero De…

06/06/2024 2393 views 9 likes

Hera approaches Dimorphos

Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission

29/05/2024 2550 views 7 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Airbus to build ESA’s Vigil space weather forecasting missi…

22/05/2024 3250 views 11 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 3186 views 16 likes

Aurora near Frankfurt, Germany, May 2024

The May 2024 solar storm: your questions answered

17/05/2024 19903 views 50 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

25/04/2024 2693 views 31 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

ESA advances Clearspace-1 development

23/04/2024 2118 views 15 likes

Juventas CubeSat deployment

Radar journey to centre of Hera’s asteroid with Juventas Cu…

27/03/2024 2336 views 9 likes

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 183387 views 124 likes

Milani CubeSat deployed from Hera asteroid mission

Shoebox-sized Milani CubeSat joining Hera asteroid mission

14/03/2024 2462 views 18 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 142871 views 253 likes

Simulation of DART's impact on Dimorphos

DART impact might have reshaped Hera's target asteroid

26/02/2024 4628 views 45 likes

Largest flare of the current solar cycle as of 22 February 2024

Sun fires off largest flare of current solar cycle

23/02/2024 17126 views 72 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 30694 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 17036 views 58 likes

Chelyabinsk asteroid trail

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 4991 views 45 likes

Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 7772 views 26 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 4219 views 62 likes

Milani Patch Contest terms and conditions

13/12/2023 1243 views 1 likes

Milani patch contest

Design the patch for Hera’s Milani CubeSat

13/12/2023 4786 views 35 likes

Hera inside the LEAF acoustic chamber

Hera asteroid mission hears the noise

10/11/2023 4840 views 55 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 11262 views 57 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 19116 views 83 likes

Hera's Core Module lowered onto Propulsion Module

Hera asteroid spacecraft assembled

24/08/2023 5152 views 53 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

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

22/08/2023 16943 views 92 likes

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

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 21221 views 81 likes

Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure

Hera’s mini-radar will probe asteroid’s heart

10/08/2023 4553 views 65 likes

Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 4351 views 78 likes

Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system

Precision deployer to put Hera’s CubeSats into asteroid orb…

29/06/2023 2963 views 40 likes

GRASS gravimeter on shaker

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 5732 views 65 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 2954 views 44 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

Eyes on Hera: Asteroid mission’s cameras ready

23/02/2023 7218 views 110 likes

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 35039 views 243 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 10677 views 52 likes

Aten asteroids in orbit, with ESA's orbit visualisation tool

ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide

09/12/2022 7056 views 20 likes

Time-lapse photograph of 2022 WJ1 taken by astronomer Robert Weryk in Ontario, Canada

The sixth asteroid impact we saw coming

24/11/2022 57525 views 140 likes

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