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Interview with Volker Liebig on the loss of CryoSat

10 October 2005

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Artist's impression of CryoSat.

The launch of the CryoSat spacecraft unfortunately failed on 8 October 2005 due to a malfunction of its Rockot launcher, which resulted in the loss of the spacecraft. In 2006, ESA received the approval build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.

Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab

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Artist's impression of GOCE, ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer

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Can ESA rebuild the satellite?

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Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation and Head of ESRIN, since October 2004.

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