Payload
ENVISAT
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
Envisat is a large Earth-observing satellite which has been inactive since 2012. It was launched on 1 March 2002 aboard an Ariane 5 from the Guyana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, into a Sun synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 790 ± 10 km.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 1, 2002 at 01:07 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Envisat
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 763 km
- Periapsis
- 761 km
- Inclination
- 98.38°
- Orbital period
- 100.07 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 8,110 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27386
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 18.597 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational