Envisat
Sign in to saveEnvisat ("Environmental Satellite") is a large Earth-observing satellite which has been inactive since 2012. It was launched on 1 March 2002 aboard an Ariane 5 from the Guyana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, into a Sun synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 790 ± 10 km.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Envisat
- Spaceflight.image
- Envisatmod.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Model of Envisat
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Earth observation
- Spaceflight.operator
- ESA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2002-009A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 27386
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- Planned: 5 years Final:
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Astrium
- Spaceflight.power
- 6,500 watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Ariane 5G V-145
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kourou ELA-3
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Arianespace
- Spaceflight.last_contact
- (spacecraft failure)
- Spaceflight.disposal_type
- None
- Spaceflight.decay_date
- ~150 years
- Spaceflight.orbit_epoch
- 15 December 2013, 03:07:00 UTC
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
18 sectionsContents
- Mission
- Specifications
- Instruments
- MWR
- AATSR
- MIPAS
- MERIS
- SCIAMACHY
- RA-2
- ASAR
- DORIS
- GOMOS
- End of mission
- Loss of contact
- Space safety
- See also
- References
- External links
Envisat ("Environmental Satellite") is a large Earth-observing satellite which has been inactive since 2012. It was launched on 1 March 2002 aboard an Ariane 5 from the Guyana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, into a Sun synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 790 ± 10 km.
Operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), it was the world's largest civilian Earth observation satellite. Its objective was to support the continuity of European Remote-Sensing Satellite missions, providing additional observations to improve environmental studies. To accomplish the global and regional objectives of the mission, numerous scientific disciplines used the data acquired from the sensors on the satellite to study atmospheric chemistry, ozone depletion, biological oceanography, ocean temperature and colour, wind waves, hydrology (humidity, floods), agriculture and arboriculture, natural hazards, digital elevation modelling (using interferometry), monitoring of maritime traffic, atmospheric dispersion modelling (pollution), cartography and snow and ice.