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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Canadian private sector companies are key contributors to the groundbreaking Earth observation satellite Envisat, launched last month by the European Space Agency ...

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 ...

Indonesia’s Mount Gamkonora volcano is spewing hot ash and smoke into the air, as seen in this image taken by the MERIS instrument aboard ESA’s satellite Envisat, causing more than 8000 people to be ...