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    Envisat ("Environmental Satellite") is a large Earth-observing satellite which has been inactive since 2012. It is still in orbit and considered space...
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    ESA/Hubble. Retrieved 16 September 2017. "Envisat Space Segment". ESA Earth Online. Retrieved 16 September 2017. "Envisat Orbit". Heavens Above. Retrieved 16...
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    European Space Agency launched ENVISAT (an observation satellite that orbits the Earth's poles) on March 1, 2002. ENVISAT employs advanced synthetic aperture...
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  • WSR-57 WSR-74 AIRS AMSU-A ASTER Aqua Aura AVHRR CALIPSO CloudSat CERES DMC Envisat EROS GOES GOMOS GRACE Hydros ICESat IKONOS Jason-1 Landsat MERIS MetOp...
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    imaging programs, and a collaborative European effort launched the ERS and Envisat satellites carrying various sensors. There are also private companies that...
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    the fragment until it would re-enter and be destroyed harmlessly. The Envisat satellite is a large, inactive satellite with a mass of 8,211 kg (18,102 lb)...
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    orbits at an altitude of about 800 km (500 mi) and near polar inclination. Envisat (2002–2012) is one example. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits at about...
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  • correlative datasets collected for the EOS-Aura validation program and the Envisat calibration and validation campaign (Cal/Val), metadata definitions, covering...
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    the motion of position of the periapsis is stable. The ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat of European Space Agency, as well as the MetOp spacecraft of EUMETSAT and...
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  • and greatly expands on the work of the previous €2.3 billion European Envisat programme which operated from 2002 to 2012. Copernicus moved from R&D to...
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    Retrieved 4 March 2013. Kumar, S. (2009). Retrieval of forest parameters from Envisat ASAR data for biomass inventory in Dudhwa National Park, U.P., India (PDF)...
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    This Envisat radar image captures volcanoes dotted across the landscape in Tanzania, including the distinctive Ol Doinyo Lengai (at lower left), in the...
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    2021 analysis of data from four different research satellite systems (Envisat, European Remote-Sensing Satellite, GRACE and GRACE-FO and ICESat) indicated...
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    maneuvers necessary. The Earth observation satellites ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat of European Space Agency as well as the MetOp spacecraft of EUMETSAT are...
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    Vehicle with Autonomous Fail-Safe Reaction Behavior to Capture and De-orbit Envisat" (PDF). 7th European Conference on Space Debris. ESA: 101. Bibcode:2017spde...
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    and the INTEGRAL observatory in October. It also saw the launch of the Envisat satellite.: 453–454  China launched the Shenzhou 3 and Shenzhou 4 missions...
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    Copernicus Programme to close the gap in continuity of observations between Envisat and Sentinel-5. Sentinel-5 Precursor is the first mission of the Copernicus...
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    was made to be continuous after the termination of a previous mission (Envisat mission). An SDRAM-based Data Storage and Handling Assembly (DSHA), with...
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    launches of MetOp-A and Envisat, respectively. The successor to ERS-2 was the Envisat satellite, launched 1 March 2002. Envisat contained improved versions...
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    Examples: Seasat, Geosat, TOPEX/Poseidon, ERS-1, ERS-2, Jason-1, Jason-2, Envisat, SWOT (satellite) Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is a...
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    (1991–2000) ERS-2 (1995–2011) Meteosat Second Generation (2002–present) Envisat (2002–2012) Double Star (2003–2007) MetOp (2006–present) GOCE (2009–2013)...
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    Envisat ASAR mosaic of the Arctic Ocean (September 2007), showing the most direct route of the Northwest Passage open (yellow line) and the Northeast...
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    of Conakry and the Kaloum Peninsula, from the European Space Agency's Envisat: image description at http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMAV21XDYD_index_1.html...
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  • Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite Arc Segment Attitude Reference, an on-boresight attitude reference...
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    maneuvers necessary. The Earth observation satellites ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat of European Space Agency as well as the MetOp spacecraft of EUMETSAT are...
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    Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 oceanography satellites, the Argos system, Envisat, and the Pleiades satellites. CNES is taking part in the Galileo navigation...
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    Eumetsat Polar System (EPS) - built on the heritage from ESA's ERS and Envisat experimental missions, and was followed at six-year intervals by Metop-B...
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  • Imaging System) PI: Doug Degenstein, University of Saskatchewan; Routes Envisat Europe ESA 2002 ESA collaboration CloudSat United States NASA 2006 Radar...
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  • Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket...
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  • processing. One of its projects is processing data for ESA's ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat satellites using recent and historical data. It was launched in January...
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