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ESA extends Envisat satellite mission

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jun 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA Member States have unanimously voted to extend the Envisat mission through to 2013. Envisat - the world’s largest and most sophisticated satellite ever built - has been providing scientists ...

Envisat still going strong after five successful years

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 28, 2007 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Launched from Kourou in French Guiana on the night of 28 February 2002, ESA’s Envisat spacecraft marks its fifth year in space. Having orbited Earth more than 26 000 times, the world’s largest and most complex ...

ESA satellites flying in formation

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 03, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve our understanding of the ...

Arctic sea ice thinning at record rate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 28, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (14) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The thickness of sea ice in large parts of the Arctic declined by as much as 19% last winter compared to the previous five winters, according to data from ESA's Envisat satellite.

Explore planet Earth in near-real time

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 05, 2006 | 3.1 / 5 (12) | 0

Have you ever wanted to track natural events in progress, such as fires, floods and volcanic eruptions, or simply explore the planet through the eyes of a satellite? ESA has created a website, MIRAVI, which ...

ESA and JAXA satellites 'talk' to each other

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 01, 2006 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

ESA's Envisat satellite and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) data relay test satellite Kodama have successfully completed an interoperability test demonstrating that scientific data from Envisat ...

Artemis provides communications for Jules Verne ATV

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 14, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

ESA's Artemis data relay satellite, controlled from Fucino (Italy) and with its mission control centre and Earth terminal located at Redu (Belgium), is providing communications between the Jules Verne ATV ...

Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

May 23, 2008 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 0

Following a formidable 106-day trek across the Arctic, which ended with the two Arctic Arc expedition members relying on Envisat images to guide them safely through disintegrating sea-ice, intrepid polar explorer ...

Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA's Envisat

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 11, 2008 | 3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Residents along the Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Ike as it travels over the Gulf of Mexico after ripping through Cuba and Haiti. ESA's Envisat satellite is tracking the storm, which ...

GOCE's 'heart' starts beating

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

GOCE's highly sensitive gradiometer instrument has been switched on and is producing data. Forming the heart of GOCE, the gradiometer is specifically designed to measure Earth's gravity field with unprecedented ...

Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 10, 2008 | 3.3 / 5 (27) | 12

The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. Since the connection to the island in the image centre ...

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