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    ESA > Our Activities > Observing the Earth > CryoSat

    CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

    CryoSat launch

    8 October 2005

    Lift off at 17:02 CEST.
    No information on orbit insertion yet.

    "We have no information on what the status of the mission is - whether separation has taken place or not and whether the satellite is healthy," says Volker Liebig, ESA's Director of Earth Observation. More news to follow.

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