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Satellite:
Envisat
Satellite details
Acronym
Envisat
Full name
Environmental Satellite
Satellite Description
Single flight unit of the Envisat programme.
Main missions: atmospheric chemistry, climatology, ocean and ice.
Substantial contribution to land observation.
Mass at launch
8140 kg
Dry mass
7821 kg
Power
6500 W
Data access link
no link provided
Data access information
Orbit
Sunsynchronous orbit
Altitude
774 km
ECT
10:00 desc
Space agency
ESA
Status
Inactive
Details on Status (as
available)
All instruments except GOMOS, failed in mid-2011, were operational, with a variable degree of degradation, till the EOL.
Launch
01 Mar 2002
EOL
08 Apr 2012
Last update:
2019-10-29
Associated satellite programme and related satellites
Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational ,
blue tag : future
Satellite Payload
All known Instruments flying on
Envisat
Acronym
Full name
AATSR
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
ASAR
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
DORIS
Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite
GOMOS
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
LRR
Laser Retro-Reflector
MERIS
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MIPAS
Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding
MWR
Micro-Wave Radiometer
RA-2
Radar Altimeter - 2
SCIAMACHY-limb
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (limb-scanning component)
SCIAMACHY-nadir
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (nadir-scanning component)
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Satellite payload
All known instruments flying on
Envisat
* The information in this field is estimated or assumed
Telecommunication frequency or microwave sensing channel information Show expert details
Service
Dir or Mode
Frequency
Emission designator
Bandwidth
Polarisation
D/A
Data rate or Baseband
Comments
RA-2
active
3200 - 3200 MHz
N/R kHz
-
A
S-band radar altimeter
RA-2
active
13600 - 13600 MHz
N/R kHz
-
A
Ku-band radar altimeter
MWR
passive
23800 MHz
650000 kHz
-
A
Water vapour channel (supporting altimeter)
MWR
passive
36500 MHz
650000 kHz
-
A
Window channel (supporting altimeter)
ASAR
active
5331 - 5331 MHz
N/R kHz
-
A
C-band SAR