Category: News of the other missions

ESA Member States have unanimously voted to extend the Envisat mission through to 2013.

Built by Esa, Envisat is carrying ten complementary instruments which collect data about Earth’s atmosphere, land, sea and ice. It provid invaluable data for global monitoring and forecasting since its launch in 2002. Envisat is also the follow-on to ERS-1 and ERS-2 and its continuity is ensured by Sentinel missions from 2011. This continuity can to access data over long periods of time in order to identify and analyse long-term climatic trends and changes.

Further information:

• Esa website: <link http: www.esa.int esacp sem08o1owuf_index_0.html _blank external-link-new-window>ESA extends Envisat satellite mission.
• Mission: <link internal-link>Envisat