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Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

Science & Exploration

Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 8689 views 50 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Watching Salsa’s reentry live from the sky

26/08/2024 4960 views 30 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Science & Exploration

Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific

22/08/2024 4505 views 45 likes

Space Debris

ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 9338 views 43 likes

GOCE in orbit

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 3472 views 22 likes

Zero Debris key visual

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

06/06/2024 2333 views 9 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 3116 views 16 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 142827 views 253 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 30649 views 71 likes

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

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 17011 views 58 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 23090 views 58 likes

4-satellite Cluster mission

Enabling & Support

Salsa’s last dance targets reentry over South Pacific

26/01/2024 4062 views 36 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 4206 views 62 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 11204 views 57 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 19088 views 83 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

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

22/08/2023 16908 views 92 likes

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

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 21079 views 81 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 15340 views 135 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 4759 views 89 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 12471 views 191 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus’ fiery demise to set standard for safe reentry

08/05/2023 10519 views 166 likes

Measuring cyclones

Trailblazing Aeolus mission winding down

18/04/2023 8103 views 107 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

Making space more sustainable, one rating at a time

27/03/2023 4101 views 47 likes

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

21/11/2022 7982 views 49 likes

ESA's Optical Ground Station

Enabling & Support

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

18/11/2022 2422 views 52 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 26561 views 181 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 34358 views 80 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 9631 views 65 likes

Tenerife, Canary Islands

Earth from Space: Tenerife, Canary Islands

18/02/2022 14087 views 60 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 10205 views 113 likes

Students attend Online Space Debris Training Course

Calling university students to participate in the Online Sp…

04/02/2022 9402 views 28 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 15362 views 131 likes

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 8871 views 80 likes

Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby

Listen to: ESA's riskiest flyby

25/11/2021 1438 views 23 likes

Collision Warning

When debris disaster strikes

18/11/2021 6660 views 89 likes

Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8327 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 7562 views 38 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5539 views 46 likes

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

10/06/2021 1959 views 17 likes

The scales of the space debris problem

ESA's Space Environment Report 2021

27/05/2021 21055 views 67 likes

Animated depiction of a spacecraft deploying a drag sail in orbit

Setting sail for sustainable space

28/04/2021 6178 views 81 likes

Testing reentry

Space debris: feel the burn

28/04/2021 5634 views 59 likes

The growing problem of space debris

Looking back on a rubbish week

27/04/2021 2051 views 8 likes

André Kuipers

ESA astronaut André Kuipers on sheltering from space debris

22/04/2021 2467 views 53 likes

When the atmosphere isn't enough

19/04/2021 4731 views 64 likes

Space Debris

Join the Online Space Debris Training Course 2021

26/02/2021 11631 views 39 likes

Geostationary orbit

ESA and UNOOSA illustrate space debris problem

10/02/2021 10202 views 126 likes

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

ESA & UNOOSA space debris infographics and podcast

10/02/2021 11590 views 9 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 7158 views 194 likes

Process of capture

ESA purchases world-first debris removal mission from start…

01/12/2020 21978 views 145 likes

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