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ESA's ice mission

CryoSat

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
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Rockot launcher
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Russian Commission paves way for Rocket's Return to Flight

27/10/2005 1015 views 0 likes
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Artist's impression of CryoSat
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Interview with Volker Liebig on the loss of CryoSat

10/10/2005 1136 views 0 likes
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CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005
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CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

08/10/2005 5785 views 6 likes
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CryoSat launch, 8 October 2005
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CryoSat launch

08/10/2005 413 views 0 likes
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CryoSat: network countdown begins at ESOC

08/10/2005 812 views 0 likes
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CryoSat's launch tower
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ESRIN hosts Europe's main CryoSat launch event

07/10/2005 660 views 0 likes
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Videotalk: CryoSat, ESA's ice mission

07/10/2005 631 views 2 likes
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CryoSat waits for launch
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What will CryoSat find?

07/10/2005 968 views 0 likes
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Arctic view
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From Pytheas to CryoSat: a brief history of Europe's polar …

05/10/2005 2441 views 2 likes
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Lord Sainsbury
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UK Science Minister looking forward to CryoSat results

04/10/2005 615 views 0 likes
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Measuring the freeboard of sea ice
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CryoSat ready to be launched

29/09/2005 996 views 0 likes
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One half of the fairing
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Launch milestone achieved: last-ever look at CryoSat

29/09/2005 855 views 0 likes
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CryoSat's Power Distribution Units are made in Finland by Patria
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Finnish 'fusebox' at heart of CryoSat satellite

29/09/2005 1036 views 0 likes
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Video: CryoSat means sharper view of Earth's climate future

28/09/2005 605 views 0 likes
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Northern exposure to greatest climate change? CryoSat shoul…

27/09/2005 675 views 0 likes
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CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past

23/09/2005 1316 views 0 likes
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Snow-depth data handover
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Polar explorer delivers rare snow-depth data to ESA for Cry…

22/09/2005 1564 views 0 likes
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Aranda ankkurissa CryoSatin validointikampanjan aikana maaliskuussa 2005. Kuva: Tuomo Roine.
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Testing, testing: CryoSat radar at work in Baltic

15/09/2005 715 views 0 likes
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CryoSat: the ice edge holds the key

13/09/2005 721 views 0 likes
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Unloading CryoSat in the Integration Facility hall in Plesetsk, Russia
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CryoSat arrives safely at launch site in Russia

02/09/2005 1115 views 0 likes
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CryoSat in the acoustic chamber
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CryoSat environmental testing over – preparations for shipm…

21/07/2005 1052 views 0 likes
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Arctic sentinels help monitor polar changes

03/06/2005 720 views 0 likes
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Envisat image shows Drygalski crack
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B-15A collides with Antarctic ice tongue

18/04/2005 3206 views 3 likes
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Measuring sea ice thickness
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Ice-covered Baltic Sea proves ideal setting for final pre-l…

18/04/2005 1000 views 0 likes
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CryoSat Workshop
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European scientists at CryoSat workshop look forward to ans…

15/03/2005 518 views 0 likes
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Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 616 views 0 likes
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Polar expedition contributes to ESA's ice mission CryoSat

23/02/2005 813 views 1 likes
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Edge of Greenland ice sheet
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Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 844 views 0 likes
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Edge of Greenland ice sheet
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Scientists complete experiments in the Arctic before CryoSa…

19/10/2004 516 views 0 likes
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Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951)
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Norway acknowledges CryoSat as essential to help quantify o…

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ESA workshop investigates how different data from differen…

15/10/2004 427 views 0 likes
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SIRAL
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Primary instrument is delivered for ESA's CryoSat mission

06/10/2004 426 views 0 likes
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CryoSat undergoing mass balance testing
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CryoSat undergoes final testing before launch

21/09/2004 651 views 0 likes
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The isolated UK2 camp
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Scientists confront the challenges of the Arctic in support…

30/06/2004 1041 views 0 likes
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CryoSat flight structure
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Latest pictures of CryoSat satellite in the clean room

09/06/2004 992 views 0 likes
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EuroNews looks at Cryosat - ESA's ice surveyor

28/05/2004 376 views 0 likes
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ASIRAS, a new ESA airborne instrument sees ice for the firs…

08/04/2004 1997 views 0 likes
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Land and sea ice in the Arctic
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Extreme experiments: a comprehensive plan to validate CryoS…

04/09/2003 564 views 0 likes
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Artist's impression of CryoSat flying over southern Greenland ice sheet
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CryoSat takes significant step towards final completion

04/08/2003 1002 views 0 likes
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Svalbard
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CryoSat validation highlights the challenges of working in …

07/05/2003 894 views 0 likes
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The Fram Strait
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CRYOVEX – first dedicated CryoSat validation campaign gets …

19/12/2002 2822 views 3 likes
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Concept illustration of the CryoSat satellite design
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Strategies for Calibrating and Validating CryoSat now unde…

14/10/2002 853 views 1 likes
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Arctic sea ice concentration on 20 May 2002 during the LaRA campaign in northern Greenland
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Measuring ice thickness over land and sea – the LaRA 2002 a…

13/09/2002 1045 views 0 likes
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British Antarctic Survey's Halley Base
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ESA keeps vigil on the Antarctic ice pack

16/07/2002 2025 views 1 likes
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Closure of Announcement of Opportunity for Cryosat Calibrat…

31/05/2002 306 views 0 likes
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Laser Radar Altimeter Campaign (LaRA)
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Four Future Campaigns further the Earth Explorers programme

06/03/2002 1183 views 1 likes
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Concept illustration for the CryoSat satellite design
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CryoSat – a satellite with an icy mission

08/02/2002 970 views 0 likes
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Cryosat Announcement of Opportunities

26/11/2001 214 views 0 likes
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Global sea-surface temperature
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Europe’s satellites track climate changes

19/01/2001 1707 views 1 likes
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Circulation of sea ice, showing anomalies, in the Weddell Sea
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Scatterometers, sea ice and climate change

01/12/2000 1552 views 0 likes
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