ESA - CryoSat - Archive

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The mission

ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission is dedicated to measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in the ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica. Its main payload is a SAR Interferometric Radar Altimeter, which is designed for ice, measuring changes at the margins of vast ice sheets and floating ice in polar oceans.

The launch

Date: 08 April 2010
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Rocket: Russian/Ukrainian Dnepr based on SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile

1st altimeter of its kind
10+ yrs in orbit
719 km mean altitude
92° inclination

CryoSat

CryoSat detects leads in sea ice

CryoSat ice data now open to all

01/02/2011 3952 views 2 likes

Mean dynamic topography of global ocean

ESA missions highlighted at world's largest scientific conf…

17/12/2010 1860 views 1 likes

Handing over the 'keys' to CryoSat

ESA's ice mission goes live

22/11/2010 1524 views 1 likes

ESA's ice mission

CryoSat ice mission gets clean bill of health

26/10/2010 1198 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2

Enabling & Support

Experimental MEMS sensor passes in-orbit test on CryoSat-2

26/10/2010 1929 views 1 likes

Scientists receive first CryoSat-2 data

20/07/2010 2156 views 1 likes

New view of ice thickness in Antarctica

CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations

01/07/2010 2073 views 0 likes

IPY Oslo Science Conference held in Norway

Polar scientists herald importance of satellite observations

15/06/2010 2251 views 2 likes

NASA DC-8 underflies CryoSat-2

ESA's CryoSat-2 and NASA's DC-8 star in Arctic cooperation

23/04/2010 1694 views 0 likes

ESA's ice mission delivers first data

13/04/2010 1806 views 1 likes

Enabling & Support

Webcast: Climate science featured at CryoSat-2 launch event

09/04/2010 835 views 1 likes

Liftoff of ESA's CryoSat-2

Successful launch for ESA’s CryoSat-2 ice satellite

08/04/2010 2608 views 0 likes

PP Emanuelli

Enabling & Support

ESOC confirms CryoSat-2 GO for launch

08/04/2010 733 views 0 likes

Mission controllers, scientists, engineers at CryoSat-2 pre-launch briefing

Enabling & Support

CryoSat: final briefing confirms ESA ready to go

07/04/2010 509 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2 ready for launch

07/04/2010 951 views 0 likes

ESOC Main Control Room (MCR)

Enabling & Support

CryoSat-2 launch timeline

06/04/2010 2297 views 1 likes

CryoSat-2 installed in launch silo

01/04/2010 1114 views 0 likes

CryoSat's 'roof'

Invitation to the press for CryoSat-2 launch

29/03/2010 1116 views 0 likes

New launch date for CryoSat-2 confirmed

19/03/2010 1785 views 0 likes

CryoSat launch delayed

19/02/2010 1532 views 0 likes

ESA - Euronews Space Magazine CryoSat-2 – ESA's ice mission

19/02/2010 576 views 0 likes

CryoSat to observe Earth’s ice cover

15/02/2010 896 views 0 likes

Final look at CryoSat-2

Last look at CryoSat-2

11/02/2010 1269 views 0 likes

Mission Control Team in simulation training 8 December 2009

Enabling & Support

CryoSat-2 launch: teams in intense preparation

22/01/2010 1405 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2 arrives at Baikonur

Enabling & Support

ESA's ice mission arrives safely at launch site

14/01/2010 1490 views 1 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat: green light for launch campaign

20/11/2009 942 views 0 likes

Looking forward to launch

February launch for ESA's CryoSat ice mission

14/09/2009 1362 views 0 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat ready for launch: Media Day at IABG/Munich

04/09/2009 1109 views 0 likes

Kiruna station

Ground segment declared ready for CryoSat mission

07/08/2009 1447 views 0 likes

Clearing the camp of dry Antarctic snow

Scientists spend a white Christmas in Antarctica

22/12/2008 2260 views 0 likes

Leanne Guy

Physicist delivers Arctic snow-depth data in support of Cry…

11/09/2008 1137 views 1 likes

Crossing open water during the Arctic Arc expedition

Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat

23/05/2008 2151 views 2 likes

Drilling through the ice

Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to CryoSat…

09/05/2008 1584 views 0 likes

Leanne Guy

Physicist contributes to CryoSat on trek to North Pole

08/04/2008 787 views 0 likes

SIRAL-2 with test engineer

Major milestone reached in CryoSat-2 development

06/02/2008 1116 views 0 likes

Struggling over rough sea-ice during the Arctic Arc expedition

ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating …

12/06/2007 2177 views 0 likes

Building a corner reflector on Austfonna

Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in suppor…

19/04/2007 1784 views 1 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat-2 on the road to recovery

12/03/2007 1870 views 2 likes

Sea-ice in the Antarctic

Workshop on Antarctic sea-ice highlights need for CryoSat-…

09/08/2006 1064 views 0 likes

Marc Cornelissen

Polar explorers use satellite broadband to stay in touch

05/05/2006 954 views 0 likes

Measuring snow and ice properties

Climate Change students help CryoSat-2 Arctic campaign

28/04/2006 1325 views 0 likes

CryoSat in the clean room: the absorbing wall

ESA confirms CryoSat recovery mission

24/02/2006 2090 views 1 likes

Rockot launcher

Enabling & Support

Russian Commission paves way for Rocket's Return to Flight

27/10/2005 843 views 0 likes

Artist's impression of CryoSat

Interview with Volker Liebig on the loss of CryoSat

10/10/2005 959 views 0 likes

CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

08/10/2005 5297 views 4 likes

CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

CryoSat launch

08/10/2005 361 views 0 likes

CryoSat: network countdown begins at ESOC

08/10/2005 662 views 0 likes

CryoSat's launch tower

ESRIN hosts Europe's main CryoSat launch event

07/10/2005 531 views 0 likes

Videotalk: CryoSat, ESA's ice mission

07/10/2005 560 views 2 likes

CryoSat waits for launch

What will CryoSat find?

07/10/2005 818 views 0 likes

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