Ariane 5 launched ESA's Envisat, the largest civilian Earth observation satellite built at the time, into sun-synchronous orbit carrying ten instruments to monitor the atmosphere, oceans, land and ice for environmental research.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.2 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 16 Ariane 5 G flights
- Date and time
- 1 March 2002, 01:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 G
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2002-009
- Launches in 2002
- 9th of 65
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Object pages on Space Atlas: Envisat
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