ESA - Space Safety for Professionals

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ESA’s Space Safety Programme aims to safeguard the future of spaceflight and to keep us, Earth and our infrastructure on the ground and in orbit safe from hazards originating in space.

From asteroids and solar storms to the humanmade problem of space debris, ESA works on missions and projects to understand the dangers and mitigate them.

20+ Member States
3 Space hazards
11 Approved missions
2019 Established

Space Safety for Professionals

Service and Information Portals

Solar Orbiter’s widest high-resolution view of the Sun

ESA Space Weather Service Network

A federated suite of European space weather services for users in industry and academia

Asteroid 2022 AE1 observed with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope in Spain

ESA Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre

The latest information on all known near-Earth asteroids and comets

Model of the distribution of space debris around Earth

ESA Space Debris User Portal

Analysis of the space debris environment and access to the associated software

Stay up to date on Space Safety

Space Safety News Feed Space Safety LinkedIn Channel Space Safety Community Blog The Clean Space blog

Space Safety missions

ClearSpace-1 Draco Flyeye Hera Neomir Ramses RISE Swing Vigil

Important Documents

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ESA 2019 report on space debris - evolution in all orbits

ESA Space Environment Report

The latest ESA Space Environment Report (PDF)

The growing problem of space debris

The Zero Debris Charter (PDF)

The Zero Debris Charter (PDF)

Zero Debris key visual

ESA Space Debris Mitigation Requirements

ESA Space Debris Mitigation Requirements (PDF)

ESA Space Debris Mitigation Policy

ESA Space Debris Mitigation Policy (PDF)

ESA Space Safety Fleet