The European Space Ageny has reported that on 8 April, there was a sudden interruption of the communication links with the Envisat satellite, preventing reception of telemetry data. First recovery actions have been started. An anomaly review board is in place to understand the origin of the anomaly and for implementing further recovery actions.
Envisat has telemetry interruption
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