ESA Extends Envisat Mission
The European Space Agency has agreed to extend operation of the Envisat Earth Observation (EO) mission until 2013 to provide vital radar, optical and ocean altimetry data before new sensors currently in development reach orbit (see page 145). Launched in 2002 and equipped with 10 EO sensors, Envisat...
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