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

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

Measuring the freeboard of sea ice

CryoSat ready to be launched

29/09/2005 1000 views 0 likes

One half of the fairing

Launch milestone achieved: last-ever look at CryoSat

29/09/2005 856 views 0 likes

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

Finnish 'fusebox' at heart of CryoSat satellite

29/09/2005 1041 views 0 likes

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

28/09/2005 607 views 0 likes

CryoSat

Northern exposure to greatest climate change? CryoSat shoul…

27/09/2005 680 views 0 likes

Rockot launcher

CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past

23/09/2005 1324 views 0 likes

Snow-depth data handover

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

22/09/2005 1572 views 0 likes

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

Testing, testing: CryoSat radar at work in Baltic

15/09/2005 724 views 0 likes

CryoSat

CryoSat: the ice edge holds the key

13/09/2005 726 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 1056 views 0 likes

Arctic sentinels help monitor polar changes

03/06/2005 722 views 0 likes

Envisat image shows Drygalski crack

B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

18/04/2005 3227 views 3 likes

Measuring sea ice thickness

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

18/04/2005 1003 views 0 likes

CryoSat Workshop

European scientists at CryoSat workshop look forward to ans…

15/03/2005 523 views 0 likes

Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 622 views 0 likes

Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 818 views 1 likes

Edge of Greenland ice sheet

Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 849 views 0 likes

Edge of Greenland ice sheet

Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 518 views 0 likes

Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951)

Norway acknowledges CryoSat as essential to help quantify o…

18/10/2004 724 views 0 likes

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