Planetary Defence activities at the European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing an ambitious Space Safety programme for which it seeks approval at the next council meeting on ministerial level at the end of the year 2019, called Space19+. It encompasses space weather, space debris, clean space and planetary defence. In a preparatory step, the Planetary Defence Office was founded on 1 October 2018. Here we will present the main tasks of this office.