Clean Space: how much do space activities pollute?

To assess the environment impacts of space missions, ESA’s Clean Space initiative began by looking at the impact of launchers then progressed to the entire mission life-cycle: from design to demise. So began the Eco-design initiative. Clean Space has developed methods to assess the environmental consequences of each phase of a space mission, resulting in a ‘life cycle assessment’ method that is being applied to all future ESA missions before their design begins.

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