ESA - ESA Spacecraft Operations - ESA’s Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environment

ESA - ESA Spacecraft Operations - ESA’s Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environment: Next year’s Hollywood film Gravity features George Clooney stranded in orbit by cascading space junk. The threat is genuine, with debris levels rising steadily. ESA’s new Clean Space initiative is developing methods of preserving near-Earth space – and the terrestrial environment, too.