Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation ...

Envisat, launched on 28 February 2002, is the biggest European satellite ever built. Four years into its mission, ESA asked leading scientists to assess the achievements so far. This is the second in ...

kilometres since launch, equivalent to taking a trip to Mars. Envisat orbits our planet every hundred minutes, moving at a velocity of more than seven kilometres per second. instruments map trace ...

These ESA Envisat images capture the oil that is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after a drilling rig exploded and sank off the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, on 22 April. In the black-and ...

This Envisat image, acquired on Oct. 28, 2011, shows central Saudi Arabia on the arid Arabian Peninsula. The dark circle near the centre of the image is the capital city of Riyadh, the nation’s ...