ESA - Space Debris - Archive

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Four-satellite Cluster mission

Moving satellites to meet a plane for rare reentry data

02/02/2026 4602 views 24 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

Sounding the alarm: ESA introduces space environment ‘healt…

22/10/2025 10181 views 85 likes

Model of the distribution of space debris around Earth

CREAM: avoiding collisions in space through automation

12/08/2025 6284 views 63 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

ESA Space Environment Report 2025

01/04/2025 52684 views 65 likes

German laser ranging company receives ESA innovation award

21/11/2024 2372 views 11 likes

ESA's Draco mission: inside a fiery reentry

Draco mission made for destruction

24/09/2024 10731 views 69 likes

Final data captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite

Sentinel-1B journeys back to Earth

23/09/2024 5526 views 61 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

Science & Exploration

Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 11782 views 53 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Watching Salsa’s reentry live from the sky

26/08/2024 7258 views 31 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Science & Exploration

Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific

22/08/2024 6625 views 45 likes

Space Debris

ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 39509 views 74 likes

GOCE in orbit

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 5741 views 23 likes

Zero Debris key visual

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

06/06/2024 4291 views 10 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 5846 views 18 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 145044 views 256 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33004 views 75 likes

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

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18105 views 59 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24184 views 58 likes

Four-satellite Cluster mission

Enabling & Support

Salsa’s last dance targets reentry over South Pacific

26/01/2024 4736 views 36 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 4924 views 62 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 12419 views 57 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 21767 views 84 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

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

22/08/2023 18477 views 95 likes

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

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 27511 views 85 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 16902 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 5058 views 89 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 13560 views 192 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus’ fiery demise to set standard for safe reentry

08/05/2023 11135 views 166 likes

Measuring cyclones

Trailblazing Aeolus mission winding down

18/04/2023 8606 views 107 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

Making space more sustainable, one rating at a time

27/03/2023 4723 views 47 likes

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

21/11/2022 8386 views 49 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

ESA’s site for laser and quantum links marks 25 years

18/11/2022 2988 views 52 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 27051 views 181 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 36914 views 82 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 10257 views 67 likes

Tenerife, Canary Islands

Earth from Space: Tenerife, Canary Islands

18/02/2022 16959 views 60 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 12043 views 113 likes

Students attend Online Space Debris Training Course

Calling university students to participate in the Online Sp…

04/02/2022 9624 views 29 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 16438 views 133 likes

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 9345 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Listen to: ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 1551 views 23 likes

Collision Warning

When debris disaster strikes

18/11/2021 7285 views 89 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8700 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 7991 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5832 views 46 likes

Students log on for ESA Academy’s Online Space Debris Train…

10/06/2021 2165 views 17 likes

The scales of the space debris problem

ESA's Space Environment Report 2021

27/05/2021 22508 views 67 likes

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 7103 views 84 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 6880 views 60 likes

The growing problem of space debris

Looking back on a rubbish week

27/04/2021 2209 views 8 likes

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