This general public doumentary outlines the Envisat mission and shows how this satellite, to be launched in 2000, builds on ESA's Meteosat and ERS- series of satellites. It includes footage of Envisat development, animation of Envisat in orbit and examples of typical applications, demonstrated through ERS-results.

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10:00:00:00 license agreement
10:00:18:00 title: A-roll
10:06:50:00 title: B-roll
10:06:53:00 Envisat graphics
10:06:55:00 animation: Envisat in orbit
10:07:26:00 animation: ASAR [Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar]
10:07:48:00 title: Envisat development and testing
10:07:49:00 la ms Envisat in cleanroom
10:08:07:00 structural model testing at ESA's research establishment, based at Noordwijk in the Netherlands
10:08:17:00 cs service module
10:08:31:00 view of Envisat's Polar Platform and instruments
10:09:01:00 development of the service module at Matra Marconi Space's Bristol site, cs fuel tanks
10:09:12:00 zi to service module
10:09:25:00 building the service module's wiring loom
10:09:36:00 development, using computer design, of the ASAR folding antenna at Matra Marconi's Portsmouth site
10:09:40:00 screen output
10:10:07:00 test opening of the ASAR antenna
10:10:35:00 caption: Envisat launch vehicle
10:10:37:00 countdown to the launch of Ariane 502. This vehicle will be used to lau