Monster European Environmental Satellite

andygood writes: "Spaceflight Now has this article about the 'Mother of All Earth Observation Satellites' which will be launched by Europe in early 2002. This thing is the size of a juggernaut and 'every hour will gather as much data as can be stored on a dozen PC hard disks'. 'ENVISAT' (ENVIronmental SATellite) has been in the works for almost fourteen years with a price tag of 2.3 billion (Euro)."

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What's the euro these days?

[toupsie]

ENVISAT' (ENVIronmental SATellite) has been in the works for almost fourteen years with a price tag of 2.3 billion (Euro).

Are Euro at the same exchange rate as Canadian money? If so thats like three fiddy these days. What a bargain!

Re:Its Just Another Big Spy Satellite

[toupsie]

Maybe they take some of the tin foil they use to wrap around the satellite and make a new hat for you.

And yes, we are all watching you! Its all about you. You are so amazingly interesting that we, as taxpayers, are funding programs and supporting political leaders that focus in on your every move.

INSOC Forever!

Re:I wonder...

[Anonymous Coward]

What the hell is "the size of
a juggernaut" I didn't think that a juggernaut had any meaning related to size, more a matter of relentlessness.

juggernaut (jgr-nôt)
n.
Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: "It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt). Juggernaut Used as a title for the Hindu deity Krishna.

Godzilla

[simetra]

Perhaps the Monster Satellite should keep watch over Japan, since that's where Godzilla attacks most. I haven't heard of European monsters; none visible from space anyway.