Space debris a journey to Earth (3D stereoscopic version) takes the audience on a journey from the outer solar system back to our home planet. The objects encountered along the way are manmade. Originally designed to explore the universe, these are now a challenge for modern space flight. An estimated number of 700,000 objects larger than 1 cm and 170 million objects larger than 1mm are expected to reside in Earth orbits.

The video gives a closer look at the different regions used for space flight and explains how mitigation and removal measures could preserve future usage of these orbits.

A 2D version of this video is available at:    • Space debris  a journey to Earth  

Produced for the 7th European Conference on Space Debris, 1821 April 2017.

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Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL, CC BYSA 3.0 IGO (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)