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Draco’s capsule survives reentry-like conditions

Recording its own demise: Draco’s design challenge

25/08/2026 1563 views 12 likes

Boosting European leadership in in-space operations and ser…

10/06/2026 1845 views 15 likes

Spain to support ESA satellite removal mission CAT

16/05/2025 2326 views 12 likes

RISE: Extending missions in geostationary orbit

ESA to build first in-orbit servicing mission with D-Orbit

14/10/2024 15003 views 63 likes

ESA's Draco mission: inside a fiery reentry

Draco mission made for destruction

24/09/2024 14069 views 73 likes

Space Debris

ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 45569 views 76 likes

GOCE in orbit

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 6440 views 25 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Dozens of companies, institutions and NGOs sign the Zero De…

06/06/2024 4947 views 11 likes

The growing problem of space debris

Enabling & Support

Towards zero-debris CubeSats

05/06/2024 3075 views 4 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 6677 views 18 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

ESA advances Clearspace-1 development

23/04/2024 8409 views 45 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 152442 views 262 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33863 views 76 likes

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18450 views 59 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24529 views 58 likes

Four-satellite Cluster mission

Enabling & Support

Salsa’s last dance targets reentry over South Pacific

26/01/2024 5271 views 36 likes

Cleaning space

Enabling & Support

Help ESA pave the way for a space circular economy

10/01/2024 6852 views 26 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 5180 views 62 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 12798 views 59 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

Objects detected in the vicinity of ClearSpace-1 debris rem…

22/08/2023 19004 views 95 likes

CLIP: Simulating Aeolus’s demise: a bird’s eye view

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 29255 views 85 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 17556 views 138 likes

Aeolus teams take part in the first ever assisted reentry simulations at ESA mission control

Enabling & Support

Simulating Aeolus’s return: mission control feels the heat

18/07/2023 5190 views 89 likes

Servicing spacecraft approaches a satellite

Enabling & Support

ESA moves ahead with In-Orbit Servicing missions

14/07/2023 14111 views 86 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 13867 views 192 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus’ fiery demise to set standard for safe reentry

08/05/2023 11368 views 166 likes

Measuring cyclones

Trailblazing Aeolus mission winding down

18/04/2023 8885 views 107 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

Making space more sustainable, one rating at a time

27/03/2023 4978 views 47 likes

European space sector commits: Earth is ours, we must cheri…

21/11/2022 8633 views 49 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 37914 views 82 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8910 views 56 likes

Is this what spacecraft will look like in the future?

Space sustainability rating to shine light on debris problem

17/06/2021 8250 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5955 views 46 likes

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 7421 views 84 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 7343 views 61 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 5332 views 64 likes

ESA invites ideas to open up in-orbit servicing market

01/04/2021 9385 views 70 likes

Process of capture

ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start…

01/12/2020 31474 views 162 likes

Plasma wind tunnel testing

Enabling & Support

Natural fibres threaded into satellites for safer missions

13/10/2020 6548 views 82 likes

Geostationary orbit

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 74540 views 206 likes

Hubble solar cell impact damage

Hubble's impactful life alongside space debris

30/04/2020 18604 views 72 likes

ClearSpace-1

ESA commissions world’s first space debris removal

09/12/2019 127019 views 446 likes

Melting satellite part

Melting a satellite, a piece at a time

17/06/2019 9340 views 70 likes

ESA and the United Nations team up for space debris

24/05/2019 5169 views 6 likes

Space battery overcharge

Testing space batteries to destruction for cleaner skies

12/03/2019 9842 views 95 likes

Infrared and visible imaging of model satellite

ESA’s e.Deorbit debris removal mission reborn as servicing …

21/12/2018 16536 views 91 likes

Lighting up space debris

Enabling & Support

Art and space debris cross trajectories at Space Waste Lab

02/10/2018 3948 views 29 likes

Satellites and rocket bodies will eventually reenter the atmosphere

Clean Space Industrial Days: an event to guarantee the futu…

29/11/2017 1158 views 2 likes

Space debris effects on the geostationary orbit

European conference on space debris risks and mitigation

04/04/2017 17159 views 37 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Enabling & Support

Anatomy of a debris incident

01/02/2017 10216 views 55 likes

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