05/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Philippe Busquin welcomed, on Friday last, the successful launch of the ENVISAT satellite, which had just been put into orbit by Ariane 5 from the space centre in Kourou, Guyana. Envisat is the largest and most sophisticated of the ground observation satellites launched by Europeans. Conceived by the European Space Agency and the CNES, it comprises ten instruments allowing observation of a whole series of phenomena affecting, for example, climate and...