Envisat Launch Summary

On the night of the 28 February to 01 March ESA's new Earth Observation satellite was successfully launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou French Guyana. This programme is a summary of the satellites journey from the test centre at ESA's ESTEC site (The Netherlands), to Kourou (French Guayana)and finally to polar orbit, 800km above the Earth on board an Ariane 5 rocket
The 5-minute A-roll contains split audio with an English guide track and is complemented by a B-roll with international sound only

A-Roll Script
On March 1st the European Space Agency's new global environment monitoring satellite ? ENVISAT ? was successfully put into orbit by the Ariane 5 rocket.
Its mission: to provide data that will support many different types of earth science research ? encompassing land, sea, the ice caps and the atmosphere ? effective monitoring of the processes leading to environmental and climatic change.
ENVISAT is the culmination of over ten years of research and development by ESA in partnership with 120 European and Canadian companies and institutes.
Scientists have already utilised the data collected from ESA's highly successful ERS 1 & 2 satellites - currently at the end of their life spans. Now, ENVISAT's ambitious and innovative payload - ten state-of-the-art earth monitoring instruments - will provide both continuity and evolution in the quest for more knowledge of our planets biosphere.
Weighing in at 8000 kilos, it's one of the largest satellites ever built and prior to launch, it went through