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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

The geostationary ring

Weltraummüll in der erdnahen Umlaufbahn (LEO) - über dem Äquator

Der geostationäre Ring

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

Weltraummüll in der erdnahen Umlaufbahn (LEO)

Debris objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO)

Weltraummüll in der erdnahen Umlaufbahn (LEO)

Trackable objects in orbit around Earth

Debris objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO)

Trackable objects in orbit around Earth

Trackable objects in orbit around Earth

The Jules Verne ATV module docking with the International Space Station (ISS)

View inside the ATV Control Centre during Demonstration Day 1

ESAs satellitt GOCE skal måle jordas tyngdefelt. Oppskytingen er planlagt den 10. september 2008.

O δορυφόρος GOCE σε τροχιά

GOCE in orbit

GOCE

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Liftoff of the Ariane 5 ES ATV launcher V181

ESINET 2008 Road Show for entrepreneurs and SMEs

Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General

Jean-Jacques Dordain and Jean-Yves Le Gall after the successful launch of Jules Verne ATV

ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy talks us through solar array deployment

Liftoff for the Ariane 5 ES-ATV launcher with Jules Verne ATV

Liftoff of the Ariane 5 ES-ATV launcher with Jules Verne ATV

Ariane 5 liftoff

Replay of Ariane 5 ES-ATV launch

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