Outgassings and Blackbody Crossover Tests

These two routine housekeeping activities affected AATSR data quality during the Envisat mission. The tables below list the periods during which they were conducted. For full information on these activities, see the AATSR Events Report.

Table 1. AATSR outgassing periods

Start time End time Orbit start Orbit end Details
22/07/2002 09:06 24/07/2002 11:21 02051 02081 Commanded outgassing
31/01/2003 09:39 03/02/2003 17:15 04814 04861 Commanded outgassing
01/08/2003 09:17 05/08/2003 10:34 07419 07477 Commanded outgassing
25/11/2003 10:10 28/11/2003 18:30 09080 09128 Commanded outgassing
16/04/2004 08:40 19/04/2004 17:04 11126 11173 Commanded outgassing
23/07/2004 09:00 27/07/2004 15:39 12529 12589 Commanded outgassing
19/11/2004 10:00 22/11/2004 18:10 14233 14281 Commanded outgassing
08/04/2005 08:19 11/04/2005 13:16 16236 16283 Commanded outgassing
22/08/2005 08:46 25/08/2005 15:07 18183 18230 Commanded outgassing
16/12/2005 09:40 19/12/2005 15:07 19844 19891 Commanded outgassing
18/05/2007 08:19 21/05/2007 11:50 27258 27303 Commanded outgassing
24/09/2007 12:27 28/09/2007 13:39 29107 29165 Envisat service module (SM) anomaly + outgassing
23/06/2008 07:46 26/06/2008 14:18 33012 33059 Commanded outgassing
25/11/2008 08:10 28/11/2008 21:33 35231 35282 Commanded outgassing
26/05/2009 09:32 29/05/2009 21:09 37837 37887 Commanded outgassing
11/01/2010 09:01 14/01/2010 14:07 41129 41175 Commanded outgassing
29/06/2010 08:49 02/07/2010 20:31 43548 43598 Commanded outgassing
20/10/2010 16:12 27/10/2010 18:55 45170 45272 Commanded outgassing (Note 1)
04/04/2011 13:50 06/04/2011 15:41 47553 47583 Envisat SM anomaly + outgassing
07/10/2011 08:19 10/10/2011 14:49 50222 50269 Commanded outgassing
23/01/2012 07:28 26/01/2012 13:52 51773 51820 Envisat SM memory fault + outgassing

Note 1: Data were generated and are available in the archive from the beginning of this outgassing period. However, from 23/10/2010 22:47 to 27/10/2010 18:55 (orbits 45217 to 45272), AATSR was taken out of MEASUREMENT mode for manoeuvres connected with the Envisat Mission Extension.