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Launch Date
4/21/1995
Launch Site
CSG ELA2
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Launch Vehicle
Ariane 40 40+ (Ariane 4 Family)
ERS-2 launched in 1995 to provide Earth science data with instruments that included a radar altimeter and a synthetic aperture radar mapper.
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.
As of February 21, 2024 at 10:00 CET, ESA's Space Debris Office predicted ERS-2 would reenter at 15:49 UTC on 21 February 2024 with an uncertainty of +/- 1.76 hours.
ESA operated ERS-1 and ERS-2 as a tandem mission for nine months during which ERS-2's ground track coincided with ERS-1's track 24 hours earlier.
Images of ERS-2 during its descent were captured on 14 January, 28 January, 29 January and 3 February 2024 when the satellite was at altitudes above 300 km.
ERS-2 carried the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) ozone-mapping instrument in addition to radar and radiometer payloads.
As of February 20, 2024, ESA's Space Debris Office predicted ERS-2 would reenter at 16:32 UTC on 21 February 2024 with an uncertainty of +/- 4.61 hours.
ERS-2 was launched on 21 April 1995 by an Ariane-4 launcher.
As of February 14, 2024, ESA's Space Debris Office predicted ERS-2 would reenter at 02:34 UTC on 21 February 2024 with an uncertainty of +/- 31.23 hours.
On 21 April 1995, ESA's ERS-2 remote sensing satellite was launched on an Ariane 4 V72 from the Europe Spaceport in Kourou.