Envisat launch delayed to 2000

1998-09-09T00:00:00

The launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) environmental flagship, the Envisat polar platform, has been pushed from July 1999 into 2000 as a result of delays in the Ariane 5 programme. The timing is dependent on a successful Ariane 503 development mission due on 30 October. This will be ...

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