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This page contains philatelic information on the Envisat (and other European environmental-observing satellites). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the satellites featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
| Launch information (found elsewhere) |
Launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers) (farther below) |
Other postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) (immediately below) |
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| Envisat (ESA) | Envisat (ESA) | PPF and POEM (Envisat forerunners) |
| Envisat (on other than Envisat launch covers) | Envisat (ESA) | |
| TerraSAR-X (DLR) | TerraSAR-X (DLR) | TerraSAR-X (DLR) |
| SMOS (ESA) | SMOS (ESA) | SMOS (ESA) |
| TanDEM-X (DLR) | TanDEM-X (DLR) | TanDEM-X (DLR) |
| ADM-Aeolus (ESA) | ADM-Aeolus (ESA) | ADM-Aeolus (ESA) |
| PRISMA (Italy) | PRISMA (Italy) | PRISMA (Italy) |
| EarthCARE (ESA-JAXA) | EarthCARE (ESA-JAXA) | EarthCARE (ESA-JAXA) |
Below is a list of Envisat (and other European environmental-observing satellite) postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
| Country | Catalog Number | Type of Item | Year of Issue | Notes on Content |
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| PPF and POEM (Envisat forerunners) | ||||
| Comoro Islands | 768 (Mi964) i768 | Imperforate | 1991 | POEM (Polar-Orbiting Earth Observation Mission) satellite, derived from the "Polar Plate-forme" (PPF)1 of the original "Columbus" program; the POEM design and environmental-observing elements were integrated into what became Envisat, while the meteorological-observing components eventually became part of MetOp-1. |
| Comoro Islands | 768b (BL350A) i768b (BL350B) | On stamp of SS1 (768) On stamp of imperforate SS1 (i768) | ||
| Paraguay | 2265a (4x Mi4281) | Label2 and selvedge2 from MS4 (4x 2265 + 5 labels) | 1989 | ESA "Plataforma Polar (PPF)"1; (the earliest forerunner of Envisat) |
| Envisat (ESA) | ||||
| Germany | None | (Pictorial) cancel | 2001 | "Envisat" |
| Mali | 847c (Mi1674) i847c | One of MS4 (847 (a-d)) (Mi1672-1675) One of imperforate MS4 (i847 (a-d)) | 1996 | "Envisat" |
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ms (Mi?) | In (lower-left) margin of MS9 (a-i) | 2006 | Envisat |
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ms fdc | MS9 on FDC | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ims fdc1 | Imperforate MS9 on FDC | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ims fdc2 | Imperforate MS9 on FDC (different) | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown fdc | (Multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| Somalia | Unknown iss (BL?) | In (lower-left) margin of imperforate SS1 | 2002 | "Envisat" |
| Spain | None | (Multi-color printed) cachet on (un-canceled) (Spanish Post) stamped envelope (from 2011) | 2013 | "Envisat-1" |
| Spain | None | (Multi-color printed) cachet (different) on (un-canceled) (Spanish Post) stamped envelope (from 2011) | "Envisat" image | |
| TerraSAR-X (DLR) | ||||
| Gabon | Unknown ms (Mi none) Unknown ims | In (lower-left) margin of MS4 (a-d) [known illegal issue] In (lower-left) margin of imperforate MS4 (a-d) | 2016 | "TerraSAR" (launch date in text) |
| Gabon | Unknown ms fdc Unknown ims fdc | MS4 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC Imperforate MS4 on FDC | ||
| SMOS (ESA) | ||||
| Mali | Unknown b (Mi?) Unknown ib | One of MS4 (a-d) [known illegal issue] One of imperforate MS4 (a-d) | 2015 | "SMOS" |
| Mali | Unknown fdc | One of four stamps on FDC | ||
| Mali | Unknown proof | Signed-proof MS4 | ||
| Mali | Unknown fdc | MS4 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| TanDEM-X (DLR) | ||||
| No (non-launch cover) postal items found | ||||
| ADM-Aeolus (ESA) | ||||
| France | None | (Lettre-verte) personalized postage, from booklet of 10 (10x single) | 2018 | "Aeolus" "Earth Explorer-4" |
| Ivory Coast | Unknown c (Mi none) | One of MS4 (a-d) [known illegal issue] | 2018 | "ADM-Aeolus" |
| Ivory Coast | Unknown ss (BL none) | SS1 [known illegal issue] | ||
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ss (BL none) Unknown iss | In (upper-left) margin of SS1 [known illegal issue] In (upper-left) margin of imperforate SS1 | 2005 | ADM-Aeolus |
| St. Thomas and Prince Islands | Unknown ss fdc Unknown iss fdc | SS1 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC Imperforate SS1 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| PRISMA (Italy) | ||||
| France | None | (Lettre-verte) personalized postage, from booklet of 10 (10x single) | 2019 | (early-design) "PRISMA" |
| EarthCARE (ESA-JAXA) | ||||
| Benin | Unknown ms (Mi none) | MS2 (a-b) [known illegal issue] | 2017 | "EarthCARE" |
| Benin | Unknown ss (BL none) | SS1 | ||
| Poland | 4646a (Mi5423) i4646a | One of MS4 (4646 (a-d)) (BL319, Mi5423-5426) One of MS4 (i4646 (a-d)) | 2022 | "EarthCARE" |
| Poland | i4646+4646a-d folder | Folder outside, also inside (i4646+4646a-d), with detail1 and detail2 | ||
1Work began in 1985 on ESA's ambitious Columbus program. It had three main components, one of which was the Polar Platform (PPF), an un-manned multimission satellite designed to include both remote sensing and communications functions, with the goal of a mid-1990s launch. Here is an artist's concept of the PPF from 1984. Unfortunately, budgets were tight and all the elements of the Columbus program were eventually modified or canceled. In 1988 the PPF design was scaled back to a smaller satellite based on the French SPOT-4 bus. Then in around 1990 that work was integrated into the design of an environmental-observing platform called POEM (Polar-Orbiting Earth Observation Mission), which eventually evolved into Envisat, whose origins can therefore be traced back through POEM to PPF. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/009457659390159T
Below is a list of Envisat (and other European environmental-observing satellite) launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers).
| Country | Cancel Date | Cancel Location | Type of Item | Notes on Content |
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| 2002-03-01: Envisat (ESA) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2002-02-28 | Kourou | (Philatélie Arianespace) cachet on cover | Envisat launch |
| French Guiana | 2002-02-28 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Envisat launch |
| French Guiana | 2002-02-28 | Kourou | (Association Philatélique du C.E. SNECMA) cachet on cover | Envisat launch |
| Envisat (on other than Envisat launch covers) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2011-04-22 | Kourou | (Association Philatélique du C.E. SPS) cachet on New Dawn (Intelsat-28) and Yahsat-1A launch cover | "Satellite view of Earth - 2007 Greek fires (Envisat satellite)" |
| French Guiana | 2011-05-20 | Kourou | (Association Philatélique du C.E. SPS) cachet on Insat-4G (GSat-8) and ST-2 launch cover | "France 2008 - Satellite Envisat" |
| 2007-06-15: TerraSAR-X (DLR) | ||||
| Russia | 2007-06-15 | Polevaya | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | TerraSAR-X launch |
| Russia | 2007-06-15 | Baikonur | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | TerraSAR-X launch |
| Russia | 2007-06-15 | Baikonur | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | TerraSAR-X launch |
| Russia | 2007-06-15 | Korolev-9 Moscow Oblast | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | TerraSAR-X launch |
| 2009-11-02: SMOS / Earth Explorer-2 (ESA) (and PROBA-2) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2009-11-02 | Kourou | (KPS?) cachet on cover | SMOS launch |
| French Guiana | 2009-11-02 | Kourou | (KPS?) cachet (different) on cover | SMOS launch |
| Russia | 2009-11-02 | Korolev Moscow Oblast | (Lollini?) cachet on cover | SMOS launch |
| Russia | 2009-11-02 | Korolev Moscow Oblast | (Lollini?) cachet (different) on cover | SMOS launch |
| Russia | 2009-11-02 | Mirny Archangelsk Oblast | (Lollini?) cachet on cover | SMOS launch |
| Russia | 2009-11-02 | Mirny Archangelsk Oblast | (Lollini?) cachet (different) on cover | SMOS launch |
| Russia | 2009-11-02 | Mirny Archangelsk Oblast | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | SMOS launch |
| Russia | 2009-11-02 | Mirny Archangelsk Oblast | (Multi-color printed) cachet (different) on cover | SMOS launch |
| 2010-06-21: TanDEM-X (DLR) | ||||
| Russia | 2010-06-21 | Korolev Moscow Oblast | (Lollini) cachet on cover | TanDEM-X launch |
| 2018-08-22: ADM-Aeolus / Earth Explorer-4 (ESA) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2018-08-21 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | ADM-Aeolus launch |
| French Guiana | 2018-08-21 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | ADM-Aeolus launch |
| French Guiana | 2018-08-21 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | ADM-Aeolus launch |
| Gabon | 2018-08-21 | Libreville | (Lollini) cachet on cover | ADM-Aeolus launch |
| French Guiana | 2018-08-23 | Kourou | (Association philatélique du C.E. ArianeGroupe LHA) cachet on cover | ADM-Aeolus launch |
| 2019-03-22: PRISMA (Italy) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2019-03-22 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | PRISMA launch |
| French Guiana | 2019-03-22 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | PRISMA launch |
| French Guiana | 2019-03-22 | Kourou | (Association Philatélique du C.E. ArianeGroupe LHA) cachet on cover | PRISMA launch |
| 2024-05-28: EarthCARE / Earth Explorer-6 (ESA-JAXA) | ||||
| United States | 2024-05-28 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Mission patch) cachet on cover | EarthCARE launch |
| United States | 2024-05-28 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Galactic Space Covers) cachet on cover, also back | EarthCARE launch |
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