NORAD ID: 27386 Int'l Code: 2002-009A
Perigee: 773.1 km
Apogee: 774.7 km
Inclination: 98.5 °
Period: 100.2 minutes
Semi major axis: 7,144.9 km
Launch date: March 1, 2002
Source: European Space Agency (ESA)
Comments: The Envisat (Environmental Satellite) satellite is an Earth-observing satellite built by the European Space Agency. It was launched on March 1, 2002 aboard an Ariane 5 into a Sun synchronous polar orbit at a height of 790 km (�10 km). It orbits the Earth in about 101 minutes with a repeat cycle of 35 days.
Envisat carries an array of nine Earth-observation instruments that gather information about the earth (land, water, ice, and atmosphere) using a variety of measurement principles.
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