{"id":717937,"date":"2022-03-01T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=717937"},"modified":"2022-03-01T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T08:30:00","slug":"envisat-20-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=717937","title":{"rendered":"Envisat 20-year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Envisat_20-year_anniversary_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, on the first of March 2002, ESA launched a new satellite to monitor our planet from space: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Envisat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Envisat<\/a>. This research mission, which carried 10 instruments, would become a beacon for the development of future Earth observation satellites. In orbit for 10 years, double its projected lifespan, this flagship mission provided science with a wealth of data on the health of our planet and climate change \u2013 a treasure trove of data that is still used today. Thanks to the Heritage Space Programme, ESA ensures these precious data are preserved and made accessible for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0report includes interviews with :<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation, ESA\u2013ESRIN, Frascati, Italy\u00a0in English, French &amp; Italian<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Henri Laur, Former Envisat Mission Manager, ESA\u2013ESRIN, Frascati, Italy in English &amp; French<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/esatv\/Videos\/2022\/02\/Envisat_20-year_anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Access the related broadcast quality video material<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2022\/02\/Envisat_20-year_anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Envisat 20-year anniversary<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago, on the first of March 2002, ESA launched a new satellite to monitor our planet from space: Envisat. This research mission, which carried 10 instruments, would become&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717938,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/717938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}