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Contract signature for the development of zero-debris LEO satellite platforms

Right on track: Aeolus reentry map

Number of space debris objects

Solar Orbiter’s riskiest flyby

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Using reentries to clean up

Collision avoidance: what's the cost?

Satellites and debris take a long time to return

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

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

Distribution of space debris around Earth

The Teide Observatory – ESA’s wandering eye

Space debris

Evolution of the tracked space debris population

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

6th European Conference on Space Debris

6th European Conference on Space Debris

6th European Conference on Space Debris

6th European Conference on Space Debris

6th European Conference on Space Debris

6th European Conference on Space Debris

Concept for future deorbit mission

Sixth European Conference on Space Debris

Earth's poles have highest collision risk

Cleaning space

Hypervelocity Impact

Debris objects in orbit include spent upper stages

Test radar installed in Spain

Space debris

Space Situational Awareness - Space Surveillance & Tracking

Mitigation scenarios - Passivating satellites and rocket bodies

Explosions of satellites & rocket bodies

Solar radiation pressure

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

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

Simulation of the GEO environment with & without mitigation measures

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

Station keeping for a GEO satellite

Station keeping for a GEO satellite

Perturbations from Earth's gravity

Perturbations from Earth's gravity

Perturbations from Sun and Moon

Spacecraft in a graveyard orbit can still pose a threat

Mitigation scenarios: Graveyard orbit 300 km above GEO

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

Navigation satellites around Earth

Earth's gravity & centrifugal forces act on geostationary satellites

Simulation of an explosion in GEO (after 2 days)

Simulation of an explosion in GEO

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

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