Programas de Observação da Terra
Só o espaço nos proporciona a perspetiva necessária para compreender, acompanhar e agir face ao nosso mundo em constante mudança.
01 MAR. 2012
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Launched on 1 March 2002 on an Ariane-5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in French Guyana, Envisat was the largest Earth observation spacecraft ever built.
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The eight-tonne satellite orbited Earth more than 50 000 times over 10 years – twice its planned lifetime.
The mission delivered thousands of images and a wealth of data used to study the workings of the Earth system, including insights into factors contributing to climate change.
Contact with Envisat was suddenly lost on 8 April 2012. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure scenarios, the end of the mission was declared on 9 May 2012.
But ten years of Envisat’s archived data continue to be exploited for studying our planet.
The high-tech machine was engineered by a European consortium of companies from 13 countries under the lead of Astrium Germany (MIPAS, Sciamachy) with big contributions for the platform and on the instrumentation side from the UK (ASAR, AATSR) and France (GOMOS).
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Interview with Envisat mission manager
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