Contact lost with flagship Greenpissat spacecraft

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17692027

Contact has been lost with the European Space Agency's (Esa) flagship Earth observation mission - Envisat.
Controllers stopped receiving data from the eight-tonne spacecraft on Sunday, and have not as yet been able to re-establish communications.
Envisat was launched in 2002 and is already operating five years beyond its planned mission lifetime

Yeah, a satellite that provides information about our atmosphere including temperature, aerosols, and clouds is "Greenpissat". We'd be better off staying ignorant of what is happening. Ignorance is our strength.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17692027

Contact has been lost with the European Space Agency's (Esa) flagship Earth observation mission - Envisat.
Controllers stopped receiving data from the eight-tonne spacecraft on Sunday, and have not as yet been able to re-establish communications.
Envisat was launched in 2002 and is already operating five years beyond its planned mission lifetime

why call it "greenpissat"?
It is a data-gathering tool. The data it gathers concern an important factor of human existence. The data themselves are neutral.

It was a very good satellite. Got good data, and was built by scientists and engineers and it employed many people.

Schadenfreude should not be used for this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17692027

Contact has been lost with the European Space Agency's (Esa) flagship Earth observation mission - Envisat.
Controllers stopped receiving data from the eight-tonne spacecraft on Sunday, and have not as yet been able to re-establish communications.
Envisat was launched in 2002 and is already operating five years beyond its planned mission lifetime

why call it "greenpissat"?
It is a data-gathering tool. The data it gathers concern an important factor of human existence. The data themselves are neutral.

because what is there to observe are not so much the clouds [on them, enough is observed already] but the things like north korean rocket launch and nuclear preparations, chinese military shipbuilding activities, etc. But where the PC agenda takes over the space program, it immediately becomes greenpissat.

Had a friend that worked at the Dept. of Agriculture in DC in the 80s. Couldn't go in to the building to get him when I visited om because he had a clearance. He was officially working on Landstat satellites (he was a programmer with a Geography degree). His wife said he would say stuff like Nicaragua had a good wheat crop two years ago. Eventually had a good gig, Was at Goddard and headed the group that pointed the Hubble.About six months before the" Pillars of Creation " picture, he had told me they had pictures that would blow your mind.