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

Handing over the 'keys' to CryoSat

ESA's ice mission goes live

22/11/2010 1797 views 1 likes

ESA's ice mission

CryoSat ice mission gets clean bill of health

26/10/2010 1390 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2

Enabling & Support

Experimental MEMS sensor passes in-orbit test on CryoSat-2

26/10/2010 2216 views 1 likes

Scientists receive first CryoSat-2 data

20/07/2010 2429 views 1 likes

New view of ice thickness in Antarctica

CryoSat-2 exceeding expectations

01/07/2010 2321 views 0 likes

IPY Oslo Science Conference held in Norway

Polar scientists herald importance of satellite observations

15/06/2010 2640 views 2 likes

NASA DC-8 underflies CryoSat-2

ESA's CryoSat-2 and NASA's DC-8 star in Arctic cooperation

23/04/2010 1915 views 0 likes

ESA's ice mission delivers first data

13/04/2010 2020 views 1 likes

Enabling & Support

Webcast: Climate science featured at CryoSat-2 launch event

09/04/2010 958 views 1 likes

Liftoff of ESA's CryoSat-2

Successful launch for ESA’s CryoSat-2 ice satellite

08/04/2010 2961 views 0 likes

PP Emanuelli

Enabling & Support

ESOC confirms CryoSat-2 GO for launch

08/04/2010 829 views 0 likes

Mission controllers, scientists, engineers at CryoSat-2 pre-launch briefing

Enabling & Support

CryoSat: final briefing confirms ESA ready to go

07/04/2010 614 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2 ready for launch

07/04/2010 1110 views 0 likes

ESOC Main Control Room (MCR)

Enabling & Support

CryoSat-2 launch timeline

06/04/2010 2669 views 2 likes

CryoSat-2 installed in launch silo

01/04/2010 1262 views 0 likes

CryoSat's 'roof'

Invitation to the press for CryoSat-2 launch

29/03/2010 1297 views 0 likes

New launch date for CryoSat-2 confirmed

19/03/2010 1967 views 0 likes

CryoSat launch delayed

19/02/2010 1675 views 0 likes

ESA - Euronews Space Magazine CryoSat-2 – ESA's ice mission

19/02/2010 643 views 0 likes

CryoSat to observe Earth’s ice cover

15/02/2010 1062 views 0 likes

Final look at CryoSat-2

Last look at CryoSat-2

11/02/2010 1504 views 0 likes

Mission Control Team in simulation training 8 December 2009

Enabling & Support

CryoSat-2 launch: teams in intense preparation

22/01/2010 1556 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2 arrives at Baikonur

Enabling & Support

ESA's ice mission arrives safely at launch site

14/01/2010 1679 views 1 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat: green light for launch campaign

20/11/2009 1157 views 0 likes

Looking forward to launch

February launch for ESA's CryoSat ice mission

14/09/2009 1643 views 0 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat ready for launch: Media Day at IABG/Munich

04/09/2009 1253 views 0 likes

Kiruna station

Ground segment declared ready for CryoSat mission

07/08/2009 1621 views 0 likes

Clearing the camp of dry Antarctic snow

Scientists spend a white Christmas in Antarctica

22/12/2008 2596 views 0 likes

Leanne Guy

Physicist delivers Arctic snow-depth data in support of Cry…

11/09/2008 1308 views 1 likes

Crossing open water during the Arctic Arc expedition

Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat

23/05/2008 2504 views 2 likes

Drilling through the ice

Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to CryoSat…

09/05/2008 1784 views 0 likes

Leanne Guy

Physicist contributes to CryoSat on trek to North Pole

08/04/2008 933 views 0 likes

SIRAL-2 with test engineer

Major milestone reached in CryoSat-2 development

06/02/2008 1236 views 0 likes

Struggling over rough sea-ice during the Arctic Arc expedition

ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating …

12/06/2007 2515 views 0 likes

Building a corner reflector on Austfonna

Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in suppor…

19/04/2007 2011 views 1 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat-2 on the road to recovery

12/03/2007 2177 views 2 likes

Sea-ice in the Antarctic

Workshop on Antarctic sea-ice highlights need for CryoSat-…

09/08/2006 1204 views 0 likes

Marc Cornelissen

Polar explorers use satellite broadband to stay in touch

05/05/2006 1106 views 0 likes

Measuring snow and ice properties

Climate Change students help CryoSat-2 Arctic campaign

28/04/2006 1520 views 0 likes

CryoSat in the clean room: the absorbing wall

ESA confirms CryoSat recovery mission

24/02/2006 2297 views 1 likes

Rockot launcher

Enabling & Support

Russian Commission paves way for Rocket's Return to Flight

27/10/2005 1023 views 0 likes

Artist's impression of CryoSat

Interview with Volker Liebig on the loss of CryoSat

10/10/2005 1142 views 0 likes

CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

08/10/2005 5817 views 6 likes

CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

CryoSat launch

08/10/2005 415 views 0 likes

CryoSat: network countdown begins at ESOC

08/10/2005 817 views 0 likes

CryoSat's launch tower

ESRIN hosts Europe's main CryoSat launch event

07/10/2005 667 views 0 likes

Videotalk: CryoSat, ESA's ice mission

07/10/2005 632 views 2 likes

CryoSat waits for launch

What will CryoSat find?

07/10/2005 973 views 0 likes

Arctic view

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

05/10/2005 2451 views 2 likes

Lord Sainsbury

UK Science Minister looking forward to CryoSat results

04/10/2005 617 views 0 likes

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