Envisat Earth Observation Satellite Kourou, Europe
Key Data:
Height
10m
Orbital Slot
800km
Key Data:
Start year
Early 1990s
Base Country
French Guyana
Launch
March 2002
Key Players:
Sponsor
European Space Agency (ESA)
Lead contractor
Astrium
Payload Data Segment
Thomson-CSF Services & Systemes Sol Spatiaux
Polar Platform (PPF)
Matra Marconi Space
Payload Equipment Bay
Dornier Satellitensysteme GmbH
Weights:
Maximum Weight
8t
Payload Weight
2.2t
Specifications:
Polar Platform Instrumentation
Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS); Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS);
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY); Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS);
Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR);
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR); Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2);
Microwave Radiometer (MWR);
Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite (DORIS);
Laser Retro-Reflector (LRR).
Flight Operations Control Centre (FOCC)
ESOC Darmstadt, Germany
Ground stations
Kiruna, Fucino, Svallbard, and Villafranca
