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

Liftoff of ESA's CryoSat-2

Successful launch for ESA’s CryoSat-2 ice satellite

08/04/2010 3024 views 0 likes

PP Emanuelli

Enabling & Support

ESOC confirms CryoSat-2 GO for launch

08/04/2010 843 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 624 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2 ready for launch

07/04/2010 1158 views 0 likes

ESOC Main Control Room (MCR)

Enabling & Support

CryoSat-2 launch timeline

06/04/2010 2737 views 2 likes

CryoSat-2 installed in launch silo

01/04/2010 1296 views 0 likes

CryoSat's 'roof'

Invitation to the press for CryoSat-2 launch

29/03/2010 1324 views 0 likes

New launch date for CryoSat-2 confirmed

19/03/2010 2001 views 0 likes

CryoSat launch delayed

19/02/2010 1705 views 0 likes

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

19/02/2010 647 views 0 likes

CryoSat to observe Earth’s ice cover

15/02/2010 1089 views 0 likes

Final look at CryoSat-2

Last look at CryoSat-2

11/02/2010 1534 views 0 likes

Mission Control Team in simulation training 8 December 2009

Enabling & Support

CryoSat-2 launch: teams in intense preparation

22/01/2010 1582 views 0 likes

CryoSat-2 arrives at Baikonur

Enabling & Support

ESA's ice mission arrives safely at launch site

14/01/2010 1704 views 1 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat: green light for launch campaign

20/11/2009 1186 views 0 likes

Looking forward to launch

February launch for ESA's CryoSat ice mission

14/09/2009 1683 views 0 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat ready for launch: Media Day at IABG/Munich

04/09/2009 1280 views 0 likes

Kiruna station

Ground segment declared ready for CryoSat mission

07/08/2009 1659 views 0 likes

Clearing the camp of dry Antarctic snow

Scientists spend a white Christmas in Antarctica

22/12/2008 2654 views 0 likes

Leanne Guy

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

11/09/2008 1336 views 1 likes

Crossing open water during the Arctic Arc expedition

Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat

23/05/2008 2574 views 2 likes

Drilling through the ice

Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to CryoSat…

09/05/2008 1889 views 0 likes

Leanne Guy

Physicist contributes to CryoSat on trek to North Pole

08/04/2008 953 views 0 likes

SIRAL-2 with test engineer

Major milestone reached in CryoSat-2 development

06/02/2008 1266 views 0 likes

Struggling over rough sea-ice during the Arctic Arc expedition

ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating …

12/06/2007 2562 views 0 likes

Building a corner reflector on Austfonna

Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in suppor…

19/04/2007 2051 views 1 likes

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CryoSat-2 on the road to recovery

12/03/2007 2235 views 2 likes

Sea-ice in the Antarctic

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

09/08/2006 1231 views 0 likes

Marc Cornelissen

Polar explorers use satellite broadband to stay in touch

05/05/2006 1133 views 0 likes

Measuring snow and ice properties

Climate Change students help CryoSat-2 Arctic campaign

28/04/2006 1632 views 0 likes

CryoSat in the clean room: the absorbing wall

ESA confirms CryoSat recovery mission

24/02/2006 2329 views 1 likes

Rockot launcher

Enabling & Support

Russian Commission paves way for Rocket's Return to Flight

27/10/2005 1042 views 0 likes

Artist's impression of CryoSat

Interview with Volker Liebig on the loss of CryoSat

10/10/2005 1178 views 0 likes

CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

08/10/2005 5905 views 7 likes

CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005

CryoSat launch

08/10/2005 421 views 0 likes

CryoSat: network countdown begins at ESOC

08/10/2005 841 views 0 likes

CryoSat's launch tower

ESRIN hosts Europe's main CryoSat launch event

07/10/2005 691 views 0 likes

Videotalk: CryoSat, ESA's ice mission

07/10/2005 647 views 2 likes

CryoSat waits for launch

What will CryoSat find?

07/10/2005 991 views 0 likes

Arctic view

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

05/10/2005 2530 views 2 likes

Lord Sainsbury

UK Science Minister looking forward to CryoSat results

04/10/2005 646 views 0 likes

Measuring the freeboard of sea ice

CryoSat ready to be launched

29/09/2005 1029 views 0 likes

One half of the fairing

Launch milestone achieved: last-ever look at CryoSat

29/09/2005 874 views 0 likes

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

Finnish 'fusebox' at heart of CryoSat satellite

29/09/2005 1067 views 0 likes

Video: CryoSat means sharper view of Earth's climate future

28/09/2005 620 views 0 likes

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Northern exposure to greatest climate change? CryoSat shoul…

27/09/2005 706 views 0 likes

Rockot launcher

CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past

23/09/2005 1359 views 0 likes

Snow-depth data handover

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

22/09/2005 1596 views 0 likes

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Testing, testing: CryoSat radar at work in Baltic

15/09/2005 747 views 0 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat: the ice edge holds the key

13/09/2005 751 views 0 likes

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