Europe at the forefront of cleaning up space. Agency responsible for the operations of 30 European satellites has launched a policy aimed at achieving zero space debris.
This is necessary to manage the end of satellite missions and coordinate space traffic. Since the start of the space age, 2,500 objects, many of them space debris – an average of 150 tonnes of satellites, launcher stages and debris per year – have re-entered the atmosphere. The risk of a fragment falling on a human being is very low, i.e. 1 in 100 billion.