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

Lord Sainsbury

UK Science Minister looking forward to CryoSat results

04/10/2005 485 views 0 likes

Measuring the freeboard of sea ice

CryoSat ready to be launched

29/09/2005 866 views 0 likes

One half of the fairing

Launch milestone achieved: last-ever look at CryoSat

29/09/2005 730 views 0 likes

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

Finnish 'fusebox' at heart of CryoSat satellite

29/09/2005 874 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 571 views 0 likes

Rockot launcher

CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past

23/09/2005 1062 views 0 likes

Snow-depth data handover

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

22/09/2005 1400 views 0 likes

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

Testing, testing: CryoSat radar at work in Baltic

15/09/2005 572 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 882 views 0 likes

Arctic sentinels help monitor polar changes

03/06/2005 601 views 0 likes

Envisat image shows Drygalski crack

B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

18/04/2005 2784 views 3 likes

Measuring sea ice thickness

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

18/04/2005 842 views 0 likes

CryoSat Workshop

European scientists at CryoSat workshop look forward to ans…

15/03/2005 427 views 0 likes

Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 522 views 0 likes

Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 716 views 1 likes

Edge of Greenland ice sheet

Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 698 views 0 likes

Edge of Greenland ice sheet

Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 421 views 0 likes

Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951)

Norway acknowledges CryoSat as essential to help quantify o…

18/10/2004 553 views 0 likes

ESA workshop investigates how different data from differen…

15/10/2004 350 views 0 likes

SIRAL

Primary instrument is delivered for ESA's CryoSat mission

06/10/2004 323 views 0 likes

CryoSat undergoing mass balance testing

CryoSat undergoes final testing before launch

21/09/2004 543 views 0 likes

The isolated UK2 camp

Scientists confront the challenges of the Arctic in support…

30/06/2004 875 views 0 likes

CryoSat flight structure

Latest pictures of CryoSat satellite in the clean room

09/06/2004 870 views 0 likes

EuroNews looks at Cryosat - ESA's ice surveyor

28/05/2004 320 views 0 likes

CryoSat

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

08/04/2004 1678 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 782 views 0 likes

Svalbard

CryoSat validation highlights the challenges of working in …

07/05/2003 778 views 0 likes

The Fram Strait

CRYOVEX – first dedicated CryoSat validation campaign gets …

19/12/2002 2494 views 1 likes

Concept illustration of the CryoSat satellite design

Strategies for Calibrating and Validating CryoSat now unde…

14/10/2002 711 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 879 views 0 likes

British Antarctic Survey's Halley Base

ESA keeps vigil on the Antarctic ice pack

16/07/2002 1842 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 988 views 1 likes

Concept illustration for the CryoSat satellite design

CryoSat – a satellite with an icy mission

08/02/2002 759 views 0 likes

Cryosat Announcement of Opportunities

26/11/2001 172 views 0 likes

Global sea-surface temperature

Europe’s satellites track climate changes

19/01/2001 1373 views 0 likes

Circulation of sea ice, showing anomalies, in the Weddell Sea

Scatterometers, sea ice and climate change

01/12/2000 1263 views 0 likes

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