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4 Years of Envisat and More to Come
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on Wednesday March 15, @07:53AM
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The EO Portal as a retrospective article about the four years of Envisat. From the article: "Envisat was initially intended to stay in orbit for five years. However, given the overall excellent standing of the satellite, the ESA Ministerial Council agreed last December in Berlin, Germany, to fund the Envisat mission until 2010."
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The EOPortal summarise an article on the ESA GMES satellite Sentinel-1 design and development contract along with information on future plans. From the article: "[...] Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. [...] The ESA Sentinels, composed of five satellites, constitute the first series of operational satellites responding to the EO needs of the GMES programme, a joint initiative of the European Commission and ESA. [...] Sentinel-1 is expected to be launched in 2011 and will ensure the continuity of C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data with ESA’s ERS and Envisat satellites. [...] swaths of 250 kilometres in diameter with a ground resolution of five metres. Sentinel-2 and 3 satellites, scheduled for launch in 2012, will support land and ocean monitoring, while Sentinel-4 and 5 will be dedicated to meteorology and climatology through atmospheric chemistry."
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