Launched from Kourou in French Guiana on the night of February 28, 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 environmental satellite ever launched has travelled a distance of more than 1.000.000.000 kilometres – nearly the equivalent of travelling to Jupiter and back. Generating some 280 Gigabytes of data products daily, Envisat has gathered 500 Terabytes to date.
To mark five years of Envisat, four picture galleries have been created to provide an overview of the mission:
Envisat still going strong after five successful years
1. März 2007