Planetes

https://anilist.co/anime/329/Planetes

Garbage collectors in space. In the future space travel is a normal every-day occurence (like flying on a plane is today), but this has created a serious problem with orbital debris. Story follows the debris collecting section of a corporate space station.

Episodes

• S1E1 - Outside The Atmosphere
• S1E2 - Like A Dream
• S1E3 - Return Trajectory
• S1E4 - Part Of The Job
• S1E5 - Fly Me To The Moon
• S1E6 - The Lunar Flying Squirrels
• S1E7 - Extraterrestrial Girl
• S1E8 - A Place To Cling To
• S1E9 - Regrets
• S1E10 - A Sky Of Stardust
• S1E11 - Boundary Line
• ...

Notable

• Story has a major change (introduction of debris collection laws) introduced by a very public disaster (debris destroys civilian passenger space plane). Good way to introduce a large change into a story.