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Satellites and debris take a long time to return

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

Still from Hera full dome show

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

ClearSpace-1's firm grip

Process of capture

ClearSpace-1 prepares to reenter with Vespa

ClearSpace-1 captures Vespa

Solar cycle 25 prediction, NOAA

Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure

Model representing the space debris environment

Challenge: Spot the asteroids

Clean Space has three branches, reflecting its mission to assess the environmental impacts of Agency programmes to finding ways to address them, and contributing to a more sustainable and competitive European space industry.

Risky asteroids: how close do they come?

Kurzbeschreibung von erdnahen Objekten

Asteroid experts catch final glimpse of Solar Orbiter

Cosmic caller goes out with a bang

January fireball over northeastern Germany

ClearSpace-1

Hera scans Dimorphos

Shimmering skies signal space weather

Birth of a planet

Planet drop

Sun's shape-shifting atmosphere viewed by Proba2's SWAP camera

ESA and Inmarsat sign agreement to use satellites for air traffic management

Hera logo aboard ISS

02/10/2019 4135 views 76 likes

Predicted near miss between Aeolus and Starlink 44

Distribution of space debris around Earth

Brian May, Astrophysicist and Rockstar

Juventas lands on Dimorphos

Hera’s Juventas CubeSat

Hera’s companions

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Meet the Hera team

Hera’s journey

Didymos and Dimorphos

Didymoon seen from Didymos

Launch of an in-orbit servicing mission

In-Orbit Servicing: Mission profile

05/08/2019 1762 views 3 likes

The Teide Observatory – ESA’s wandering eye

Mitigation: Asteroid on collision course

ESA's Optical Ground Station

Hera mission patch

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