ESA - Space Safety - Archive

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Geostationary orbit

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 71901 views 204 likes

Infrared imaging of the impact crater

Industry starts work on Europe’s Hera planetary defence mis…

15/09/2020 9006 views 63 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

First laser detection of space debris in daylight

04/08/2020 13074 views 90 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Gaia revolutionises asteroid tracking

01/07/2020 7323 views 88 likes

ESA celebrates Asteroid Day

Watch ESA's Asteroid Day programmes

26/06/2020 2619 views 1 likes

Didymos asteroids

Name given to asteroid target of ESA’s planetary defence mi…

23/06/2020 7186 views 33 likes

Space Safety

An Agency for asteroids

23/06/2020 4737 views 27 likes

Incoming asteroid

ESA highlights protection for our planet ahead of Asteroid …

22/06/2020 8392 views 67 likes

Brian May, Astrophysicist and Rockstar

Queen’s Brian May works to probe origin of asteroids

02/06/2020 10623 views 64 likes

Distribution of space debris around Earth

The cost of space debris

07/05/2020 36302 views 82 likes

2020 HS7 observed by the Tautenburg Observatory on 28 April 2020

Asteroid grazes path of satellites in geostationary ring

30/04/2020 8212 views 77 likes

Hubble solar cell impact damage

Hubble's impactful life alongside space debris

30/04/2020 17198 views 72 likes

100th asteroid impact jointly detected at the Moon

100th lunar asteroid collision confirmed by second telescope

14/04/2020 13713 views 128 likes

Students and experts of Clean Space Training Course 2020

Clean Space Training Course 2020 sees students explore the …

24/02/2020 2784 views 9 likes

ClearSpace-1

ESA commissions world’s first space debris removal

09/12/2019 125769 views 445 likes

Hera leaving Earth

Amateur astronomers: help choose asteroid flybys for Hera

26/11/2019 4231 views 34 likes

Using AI to predict Earth’s future

19/11/2019 7637 views 49 likes

Juventas CubeSat closing on asteroid

Luxembourg firm enabling peek inside asteroid

18/11/2019 2892 views 21 likes

This week we're under the space weather

18/11/2019 5282 views 23 likes

ESA practices cybersecurity

07/11/2019 11659 views 22 likes

Hera scans DART’s impact crater

Apollo astronaut champions Hera for planetary defence

05/11/2019 3732 views 44 likes

An artificial Proba-2 view of the solar north pole

A decade probing the Sun

04/11/2019 5245 views 69 likes

Juventas radar CubeSat

Hera’s radar CubeSat will peer into asteroid’s heart

23/10/2019 3250 views 5 likes

Automating collision avoidance

22/10/2019 28029 views 65 likes

NASA's DART impacting asteroid

Driving diamond into asteroid dust helps model planetary de…

19/09/2019 2837 views 13 likes

Artist impression of ‘Oumuamua

Interstellar 2.0

12/09/2019 25031 views 249 likes

Hera approaches the impact scene

A burst of asteroid activity in Europe

10/09/2019 13286 views 101 likes

Measuring cyclones

ESA spacecraft dodges large constellation

03/09/2019 37603 views 430 likes

Hera at Dimorphos

Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection

02/09/2019 31038 views 162 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 24623 views 182 likes

Lutetia

ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019

16/07/2019 33413 views 160 likes

CubeSat approaching asteroid

When CubeSats meet asteroid

28/06/2019 6616 views 78 likes

DART impacting asteroid

Will DART make its target asteroid go wobbly? Hera will see

27/06/2019 3614 views 54 likes

Asteroid Ryugu

ESA marks Asteroid Day on 30 June

24/06/2019 6217 views 57 likes

Melting satellite part

Melting a satellite, a piece at a time

17/06/2019 9079 views 70 likes

Hera surveying Dimorphos

Hera asteroid mission’s brain to be radiation-hard and fail…

11/06/2019 5275 views 65 likes

Side by side observation and artist's impression of Asteroid 1999 KW4

Binary asteroids, key to Earth’s planetary defence

04/06/2019 7518 views 56 likes

ESA and the United Nations team up for space debris

24/05/2019 4968 views 6 likes

Recognising sustainable behaviour

06/05/2019 12896 views 82 likes

Hera mission patch

Hera gets its own logo

03/05/2019 3176 views 15 likes

APEX CubeSat

Hera’s APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids ar…

02/05/2019 7023 views 68 likes

Juventas CubeSat

Hera’s CubeSat to perform first radar probe of an asteroid

01/05/2019 9922 views 87 likes

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 41855 views 152 likes

SCI impactor on way to Ryugu asteroid

Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back

22/04/2019 12849 views 148 likes

Rocket break-up provides rare chance to test debris formati…

12/04/2019 10565 views 100 likes

Infrared imaging of the impact crater

Self-driving spacecraft set for planetary defence expedition

05/04/2019 7112 views 64 likes

Bright spots on Ceres

ESA’s Hera asteroid mission borrows eyes of NASA’s Dawn

18/03/2019 7989 views 96 likes

Space battery overcharge

Testing space batteries to destruction for cleaner skies

12/03/2019 9551 views 95 likes

Gran Telescopio Canarias telescope

World’s best telescopes target asteroids for ESA’s Hera mis…

05/03/2019 4627 views 38 likes

Restless star makes for stunning storm

Space weather kicks up a social storm

01/03/2019 9634 views 127 likes

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