Articles written by: Rosa Rosanelli

Goodbye Envisat, or legal issues associated with the threat of a massive space debris

This scale model of Envisat shows the relative size of the craft that now poses a threat to other orbiting satellites (Credits: ESA).

An advanced remote sensing satellite designed to provide accurate data on the Earth environment, Envisat leaves the space community after 10 years of stunning images and continuous measurements that made possible more than 2500 scientific publications[1]. Launched by the European Space Agency in 2002 to ensure the continuity of data measurements with the European Remote Sensing Satellites ERS-1 and 2, [...]

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