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ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 41443 views 75 likes

GOCE in orbit

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 5874 views 24 likes

Zero Debris key visual

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

06/06/2024 4440 views 10 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 6044 views 18 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 151969 views 262 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33194 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 18182 views 59 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24271 views 58 likes

Four-satellite Cluster mission

Enabling & Support

Salsa’s last dance targets reentry over South Pacific

26/01/2024 4851 views 36 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 4992 views 62 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 12501 views 58 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 21866 views 85 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

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

22/08/2023 18585 views 95 likes

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

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 27983 views 85 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 17036 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 5089 views 89 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 13665 views 192 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus’ fiery demise to set standard for safe reentry

08/05/2023 11203 views 166 likes

Measuring cyclones

Trailblazing Aeolus mission winding down

18/04/2023 8653 views 107 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

Making space more sustainable, one rating at a time

27/03/2023 4788 views 47 likes

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

21/11/2022 8447 views 49 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

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

18/11/2022 3085 views 52 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 27185 views 181 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 37118 views 82 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 10304 views 67 likes

Tenerife, Canary Islands

Earth from Space: Tenerife, Canary Islands

18/02/2022 17299 views 60 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 12204 views 113 likes

Students attend Online Space Debris Training Course

Calling university students to participate in the Online Sp…

04/02/2022 9644 views 29 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 16591 views 133 likes

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 9386 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Listen to: ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 1563 views 23 likes

Collision Warning

When debris disaster strikes

18/11/2021 7387 views 90 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8747 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 8049 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5857 views 46 likes

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

10/06/2021 2190 views 17 likes

The scales of the space debris problem

ESA's Space Environment Report 2021

27/05/2021 22808 views 68 likes

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 7170 views 84 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 7016 views 60 likes

The growing problem of space debris

Looking back on a rubbish week

27/04/2021 2232 views 8 likes

André Kuipers

ESA astronaut André Kuipers on sheltering from space debris

22/04/2021 2759 views 53 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 5189 views 64 likes

Space Debris

Join the Online Space Debris Training Course 2021

26/02/2021 11827 views 39 likes

Geostationary orbit

ESA and UNOOSA illustrate space debris problem

10/02/2021 11102 views 126 likes

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

ESA & UNOOSA space debris infographics and podcast

10/02/2021 16070 views 14 likes

Iodine thruster used to change the orbit of a small satellite for the first time ever

Iodine thruster could slow space junk accumulation

22/01/2021 7534 views 195 likes

Process of capture

ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start…

01/12/2020 29734 views 157 likes

Geostationary orbit

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 72515 views 204 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

First laser detection of space debris in daylight

04/08/2020 13142 views 90 likes

Online group photo

ESA Academy’s Space Debris Training Course 2020 goes online!

25/06/2020 2327 views 3 likes

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