1 March 2002, 01:07:59 (2002-03-01UTC01:07:59Z) UTC
Rocket
Ariane 5G V-145
Launch site
Kourou ELA-3
Contractor
Arianespace
End of mission
Disposal
None
Declared
9 May 2012 (2012-05-10)
Last contact
8 April 2012 (2012-04-09) (spacecraft failure)
Decay date
~150 years
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Polar low Earth
Semi-major axis
7,144.9 km (4,439.6 mi)
Eccentricity
0.00042
Perigee altitude
772 km (480 mi)
Apogee altitude
774 km (481 mi)
Inclination
98.40 degrees
Period
100.16 minutes
Repeat interval
35 days
Epoch
15 December 2013, 03:07:00 UTC[1]
Instruments
ASAR
RA-2
MWR
MIPAS
MERIS
AATSR
DORIS
GOMOS
SCIAMACHY
Envisat ("Environmental Satellite") is a large Earth-observing satellite which has been inactive since 2012. It is still in orbit and considered space debris. Operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), it was the world's largest civilian Earth observation satellite.[2]
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. It orbits the Earth in about 101 minutes, with a repeat cycle of 35 days. After losing contact with the satellite on 8 April 2012, ESA formally announced the end of Envisat's mission on 9 May 2012.[3]
Envisat cost 2.3 billion Euro (including 300 million Euro for 5 years of operations) to develop and launch.[4] The mission has been replaced by the Sentinel series of satellites. The first of these, Sentinel 1, has taken over the radar duties of Envisat since its launch in 2014.
^"ENVISAT Satellite details 2002-009A NORAD 27386". N2YO. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
^EarthNet Online
^"ESA declares end of mission for Envisat". ESA. 9 May 2012.
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