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Distribution of space debris around Earth

Satellites and debris take a long time to return

Collision avoidance: what's the cost?

Right on track: Aeolus reentry map

Using reentries to clean up

Hypervelocity Impact

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

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

The Teide Observatory – ESA’s wandering eye

Solar Orbiter’s riskiest flyby

Debris objects - mostly debris - in low Earth orbit (LEO) - view over the equator

Debris objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO)

Mitigation scenarios: Graveyard orbit 300 km above GEO

Debris objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO)

Earth's poles have highest collision risk

Space debris

Debris, thought to be asteroid, was once rocket to the Moon

Objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) - view over the North Pole

Concept for future deorbit mission

Cleaning space

Station keeping for a GEO satellite

Earth's gravity & centrifugal forces act on geostationary satellites

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Explosions of satellites & rocket bodies

Simulation of the GEO environment with & without mitigation measures

Spacecraft in a graveyard orbit can still pose a threat

Number of space debris objects

Mitigation scenarios - Passivating satellites and rocket bodies

The geostationary ring

Space Situational Awareness - Space Surveillance & Tracking

Debris objects in orbit include spent upper stages

Mitigation scenarios: Reorbiting a spacecraft into a 'graveyard orbit'

Evolution of the tracked space debris population

Mitigation scenarios - Avoidance of mission-related objects (MRO)

Test radar installed in Spain

Simulation of the GEO environment with mitigation measures (top) and without (bottom) - 2005

Trackable objects in orbit around Earth

Perturbations from Sun and Moon

Simulation of an explosion in GEO

Trackable objects in orbit around Earth

Solar radiation pressure

Navigation satellites around Earth

Space debris

Sixth European Conference on Space Debris

Mitigation scenarios - Avoidance of mission-related objects (MRO)

Station keeping for a GEO satellite

Simulation of an explosion in GEO (after 2 days)

6th European Conference on Space Debris

6th European Conference on Space Debris

Perturbations from Earth's gravity

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