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Soyuz-Fregat launch vehicle carrying GIOVE-B

Soyuz-Fregat launch vehicle carrying GIOVE-B on launch pad

Sunshield being assembled with the solar array

Herschel solar array and sunshield

Herschel telescope mirror

Herschel telescope resting on cryostat

V182 at the launch zone

Ariane 5 ECA launcher clears the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana

Ariane 5 V182 at launch zone three

Ariane 5 V182 at launch zone three

Maspalomas station

GIOVE-B / Fregat integration

GIOVE-B / Fregat integration

GIOVE-B and payload adapter

GIOVE-B and payload adapter

Fregat ready for integration

GIOVE-B / Fregat integration

GIOVE-B mated with payload adapter

GIOVE-B arrives in the HPF

GIOVE-B

GIOVE-B

GIOVE-B

GIOVE-B

GIOVE-B

GIOVE-B

rockot_GOCE_launcher

Rockot_GOCE_ascentprofile

Auffindbare Objekte in der Erdumlaufbahn

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

Gegenmaßnahmen: Bahnanhebung eines Satelliten in den Friedhofsorbit

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 einer Explosion im geostationären Ring

Simulation of an explosion in GEO

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

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