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Launch Date
3/1/2002
Launch Site
CSG ELA3
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Launch Vehicle
Ariane 5G (Ariane 5 Family)
On 28 October 2010, Envisat was moved to a lower orbit to conserve fuel and extend its life by three years.
As of March 1, 2012, Envisat had completed about 50,000 or more orbits and had doubled its planned five-year lifetime to operate for ten years.
As of May 9, 2012, ESA declared the end of mission for Envisat after continuous unsuccessful attempts to re-establish communications following the loss of contact on 8 April 2012.
Envisat's MERIS instrument captured an image of heavy snowfall over Italy at 09:30 GMT on 13 February 2012.
On 15 April 2012, the French Pleiades satellite imaged Envisat passing within about 100 kilometres and provided images used to assess Envisat's solar-panel orientation.
As of June 5, 2009, ESA Member States had unanimously voted to extend the Envisat mission through to 2013.
On 2 November 2010, ESA paired ERS-2 and Envisat for a final tandem mission to generate 3D models of glaciers and low-lying coastal areas.
About 70,000 Envisat radar images from October 2009 to February 2011 were used to create a pan-boreal forest biomass map for 2010 with 1 km per-pixel resolution.
As of April 5, 2012, Envisat had been observing and mapping Antarctic ice-shelf changes with its Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR).
In the early hours of 1 March 2002, Envisat was launched into orbit from ESA's launch base in Kourou, French Guiana.
As of September 23, 2011, Envisat had completed its 50,000th circuit of Earth and had travelled about 2.25 billion kilometres since launch nearly a decade earlier.
Envisat had a mass of approximately eight tonnes.
Envisat's MERIS instrument recorded an image of Tropical Cyclone Giovanna around 06:30 GMT on 13 February 2012.
Envisat was launched from Kourou in French Guiana on the night of 28 February 2002.
Envisat's SCIAMACHY sensor provided data used to map global air pollution and the distribution of greenhouse gases as of June 28, 2010.
Envisat carried ten sophisticated optical and radar instruments for observing Earth's land, atmosphere, oceans and ice caps.