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ESA's ice mission

CryoSat

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
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Unloading CryoSat in the Integration Facility hall in Plesetsk, Russia
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CryoSat arrives safely at launch site in Russia

02/09/2005 1115 views 0 likes
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CryoSat in the acoustic chamber
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CryoSat environmental testing over – preparations for shipm…

21/07/2005 882 views 0 likes
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Arctic sentinels help monitor polar changes

03/06/2005 601 views 0 likes
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Envisat image shows Drygalski crack
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B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

18/04/2005 2784 views 3 likes
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Measuring sea ice thickness
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Ice-covered Baltic Sea proves ideal setting for final pre-l…

18/04/2005 842 views 0 likes
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CryoSat Workshop
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European scientists at CryoSat workshop look forward to ans…

15/03/2005 427 views 0 likes
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Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 522 views 0 likes
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Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 716 views 1 likes
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Edge of Greenland ice sheet
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Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 698 views 0 likes
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Edge of Greenland ice sheet
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Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 421 views 0 likes
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Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951)
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Norway acknowledges CryoSat as essential to help quantify o…

18/10/2004 553 views 0 likes
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ESA workshop investigates how different data from differen…

15/10/2004 350 views 0 likes
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SIRAL
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Primary instrument is delivered for ESA's CryoSat mission

06/10/2004 323 views 0 likes
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CryoSat undergoing mass balance testing
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CryoSat undergoes final testing before launch

21/09/2004 543 views 0 likes
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The isolated UK2 camp
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Scientists confront the challenges of the Arctic in support…

30/06/2004 875 views 0 likes
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CryoSat flight structure
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Latest pictures of CryoSat satellite in the clean room

09/06/2004 870 views 0 likes
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EuroNews looks at Cryosat - ESA's ice surveyor

28/05/2004 320 views 0 likes
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ASIRAS, a new ESA airborne instrument sees ice for the firs…

08/04/2004 1678 views 0 likes
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Land and sea ice in the Arctic
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Extreme experiments: a comprehensive plan to validate CryoS…

04/09/2003 437 views 0 likes
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Artist's impression of CryoSat flying over southern Greenland ice sheet
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CryoSat takes significant step towards final completion

04/08/2003 782 views 0 likes
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Svalbard
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CryoSat validation highlights the challenges of working in …

07/05/2003 778 views 0 likes
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The Fram Strait
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CRYOVEX – first dedicated CryoSat validation campaign gets …

19/12/2002 2494 views 1 likes
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Concept illustration of the CryoSat satellite design
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Strategies for Calibrating and Validating CryoSat now unde…

14/10/2002 711 views 1 likes
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Arctic sea ice concentration on 20 May 2002 during the LaRA campaign in northern Greenland
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Measuring ice thickness over land and sea – the LaRA 2002 a…

13/09/2002 879 views 0 likes
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British Antarctic Survey's Halley Base
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ESA keeps vigil on the Antarctic ice pack

16/07/2002 1842 views 1 likes
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Closure of Announcement of Opportunity for Cryosat Calibrat…

31/05/2002 260 views 0 likes
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Laser Radar Altimeter Campaign (LaRA)
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Four Future Campaigns further the Earth Explorers programme

06/03/2002 988 views 1 likes
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Concept illustration for the CryoSat satellite design
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CryoSat – a satellite with an icy mission

08/02/2002 760 views 0 likes
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Cryosat Announcement of Opportunities

26/11/2001 172 views 0 likes
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Global sea-surface temperature
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Europe’s satellites track climate changes

19/01/2001 1373 views 0 likes
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Circulation of sea ice, showing anomalies, in the Weddell Sea
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Scatterometers, sea ice and climate change

01/12/2000 1263 views 0 likes
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