Great to see an image of envisat. I fiqured some details would be seen with envisat, it's big. As for envisat flies The longitude axis ( X axis ) is normal to the orbit plane, the Y axis is closely aligned to the velocity vector and the z axis is earth pointing. Basically as I understand , it orbits flat to the earth in a sense. So it's instruments point down to the earth, such as the ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar). As it orbits , the radar scans to the side of it's direction of travel, or side scan radar as I call it. Kevin Go here to see detils on how it orbits and other stuff, so you can improve your model. http://envisat.esa.int/ Philip Masding Wrote Does anyone know how Envisat flies ? Does it have standard flight modes like the ISS (XVV and XPOP) ? If so I will be able to incorporate a simple model in my ISS Simulator porgram. The model is on the page above already and will run in the simulator but not necessarily in the correct orientation. regards Phil ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
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