Images of space debris from the European Space Agency archive:

“The Orbital Test Satellite (OTS) was the first communications satellite programme at ESA and the first European 3-axis Ku-band satellite. OTS-1 was lost in an explosion after launch in September 1977. Over the following weeks, recovery operations retrieved a considerable amount of hardware from the satellite and launcher. The satellite parts were documented by the ESA photographer P. Sjoedin and a catalogue of 76 of the recovered satellite parts was compiled: OTS_DEBRIS_1978-001.”

Antennas

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Thrusters

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Thermal and structural elements

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