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

Measuring snow and ice properties

Climate Change students help CryoSat-2 Arctic campaign

28/04/2006 1327 views 0 likes

CryoSat in the clean room: the absorbing wall

ESA confirms CryoSat recovery mission

24/02/2006 2092 views 1 likes

Rockot launcher

Enabling & Support

Russian Commission paves way for Rocket's Return to Flight

27/10/2005 848 views 0 likes

Artist's impression of CryoSat

Interview with Volker Liebig on the loss of CryoSat

10/10/2005 960 views 0 likes

CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

08/10/2005 5305 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 666 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 821 views 0 likes

Arctic view

From Pytheas to CryoSat: a brief history of Europe's polar …

05/10/2005 2066 views 2 likes

Lord Sainsbury

UK Science Minister looking forward to CryoSat results

04/10/2005 490 views 0 likes

Measuring the freeboard of sea ice

CryoSat ready to be launched

29/09/2005 867 views 0 likes

One half of the fairing

Launch milestone achieved: last-ever look at CryoSat

29/09/2005 733 views 0 likes

CryoSat's Power Distribution Units are made in Finland by Patria

Finnish 'fusebox' at heart of CryoSat satellite

29/09/2005 880 views 0 likes

Video: CryoSat means sharper view of Earth's climate future

28/09/2005 529 views 0 likes

CryoSat

Northern exposure to greatest climate change? CryoSat shoul…

27/09/2005 572 views 0 likes

Rockot launcher

CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past

23/09/2005 1072 views 0 likes

Snow-depth data handover

Polar explorer delivers rare snow-depth data to ESA for Cry…

22/09/2005 1402 views 0 likes

Aranda ankkurissa CryoSatin validointikampanjan aikana maaliskuussa 2005. Kuva: Tuomo Roine.

Testing, testing: CryoSat radar at work in Baltic

15/09/2005 575 views 0 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat: the ice edge holds the key

13/09/2005 607 views 0 likes

Unloading CryoSat in the Integration Facility hall in Plesetsk, Russia

CryoSat arrives safely at launch site in Russia

02/09/2005 1115 views 0 likes

CryoSat in the acoustic chamber

CryoSat environmental testing over – preparations for shipm…

21/07/2005 886 views 0 likes

Arctic sentinels help monitor polar changes

03/06/2005 605 views 0 likes

Envisat image shows Drygalski crack

B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

18/04/2005 2799 views 3 likes

Measuring sea ice thickness

Ice-covered Baltic Sea proves ideal setting for final pre-l…

18/04/2005 847 views 0 likes

CryoSat Workshop

European scientists at CryoSat workshop look forward to ans…

15/03/2005 428 views 0 likes

Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 523 views 0 likes

Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 717 views 1 likes

Edge of Greenland ice sheet

Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 700 views 0 likes

Edge of Greenland ice sheet

Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 423 views 0 likes

Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951)

Norway acknowledges CryoSat as essential to help quantify o…

18/10/2004 554 views 0 likes

ESA workshop investigates how different data from differen…

15/10/2004 352 views 0 likes

SIRAL

Primary instrument is delivered for ESA's CryoSat mission

06/10/2004 325 views 0 likes

CryoSat undergoing mass balance testing

CryoSat undergoes final testing before launch

21/09/2004 546 views 0 likes

The isolated UK2 camp

Scientists confront the challenges of the Arctic in support…

30/06/2004 881 views 0 likes

CryoSat flight structure

Latest pictures of CryoSat satellite in the clean room

09/06/2004 871 views 0 likes

EuroNews looks at Cryosat - ESA's ice surveyor

28/05/2004 323 views 0 likes

CryoSat

ASIRAS, a new ESA airborne instrument sees ice for the firs…

08/04/2004 1691 views 0 likes

Land and sea ice in the Arctic

Extreme experiments: a comprehensive plan to validate CryoS…

04/09/2003 437 views 0 likes

Artist's impression of CryoSat flying over southern Greenland ice sheet

CryoSat takes significant step towards final completion

04/08/2003 789 views 0 likes

Svalbard

CryoSat validation highlights the challenges of working in …

07/05/2003 781 views 0 likes

The Fram Strait

CRYOVEX – first dedicated CryoSat validation campaign gets …

19/12/2002 2509 views 1 likes

Concept illustration of the CryoSat satellite design

Strategies for Calibrating and Validating CryoSat now unde…

14/10/2002 714 views 1 likes

Arctic sea ice concentration on 20 May 2002 during the LaRA campaign in northern Greenland

Measuring ice thickness over land and sea – the LaRA 2002 a…

13/09/2002 885 views 0 likes

British Antarctic Survey's Halley Base

ESA keeps vigil on the Antarctic ice pack

16/07/2002 1847 views 1 likes

Closure of Announcement of Opportunity for Cryosat Calibrat…

31/05/2002 260 views 0 likes

Laser Radar Altimeter Campaign (LaRA)

Four Future Campaigns further the Earth Explorers programme

06/03/2002 992 views 1 likes

Concept illustration for the CryoSat satellite design

CryoSat – a satellite with an icy mission

08/02/2002 763 views 0 likes

Cryosat Announcement of Opportunities

26/11/2001 175 views 0 likes

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