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The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 12433 views 57 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 21784 views 85 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

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

22/08/2023 18494 views 95 likes

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

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 27571 views 85 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 16922 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 5070 views 89 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 13573 views 192 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus’ fiery demise to set standard for safe reentry

08/05/2023 11149 views 166 likes

Measuring cyclones

Trailblazing Aeolus mission winding down

18/04/2023 8615 views 107 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

Making space more sustainable, one rating at a time

27/03/2023 4734 views 47 likes

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

21/11/2022 8395 views 49 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

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

18/11/2022 3003 views 52 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 27076 views 181 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 36955 views 82 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 10265 views 67 likes

Tenerife, Canary Islands

Earth from Space: Tenerife, Canary Islands

18/02/2022 17040 views 60 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 12067 views 113 likes

Students attend Online Space Debris Training Course

Calling university students to participate in the Online Sp…

04/02/2022 9629 views 29 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 16472 views 133 likes

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 9357 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Listen to: ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 1554 views 23 likes

Collision Warning

When debris disaster strikes

18/11/2021 7303 views 89 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8704 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 8003 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5837 views 46 likes

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

10/06/2021 2168 views 17 likes

The scales of the space debris problem

ESA's Space Environment Report 2021

27/05/2021 22527 views 67 likes

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 7118 views 84 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 6913 views 60 likes

The growing problem of space debris

Looking back on a rubbish week

27/04/2021 2213 views 8 likes

André Kuipers

ESA astronaut André Kuipers on sheltering from space debris

22/04/2021 2736 views 53 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 5156 views 64 likes

Space Debris

Join the Online Space Debris Training Course 2021

26/02/2021 11810 views 39 likes

Geostationary orbit

ESA and UNOOSA illustrate space debris problem

10/02/2021 11015 views 126 likes

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

ESA & UNOOSA space debris infographics and podcast

10/02/2021 15667 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 7511 views 195 likes

Process of capture

ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start…

01/12/2020 29152 views 157 likes

Geostationary orbit

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 71830 views 203 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

First laser detection of space debris in daylight

04/08/2020 13070 views 90 likes

Online group photo

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

25/06/2020 2320 views 3 likes

Distribution of space debris around Earth

The cost of space debris

07/05/2020 36262 views 82 likes

Hubble solar cell impact damage

Hubble's impactful life alongside space debris

30/04/2020 17166 views 72 likes

Students with their certificates

Join the Online Space Debris Training Course 2020

28/04/2020 10315 views 30 likes

ClearSpace-1

ESA commissions world’s first space debris removal

09/12/2019 125724 views 445 likes

Automating collision avoidance

22/10/2019 28001 views 65 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

AI challenged to stave off collisions in space

09/10/2019 8855 views 52 likes

Measuring cyclones

ESA spacecraft dodges large constellation

03/09/2019 37592 views 430 likes

Melting satellite part

Melting a satellite, a piece at a time

17/06/2019 9076 views 70 likes

Checking out collision effects between two satellites

Space Debris Training Course 2019 prepares university stude…

28/05/2019 3213 views 21 likes

ESA and the United Nations team up for space debris

24/05/2019 4966 views 6 likes

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