The CryoSat-2 launch event featured keynote addresses and panel discussions with top climate scientists, including the UK's Professor Duncan Wingham, lead investigator for CryoSat; Prof. Ghassem Asrar, Director of the World Climate Research Programme; Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) and Thierry Touchais, Executive Director of the International Polar Foundation (IPF).
Click below to watch replay of ESA-TV's CryoSat-2 launch coverage from ESA/ESOC, 8 April 2010. The complete replay runs about 2 hrs 17 mins; liftoff took place at 15:57 CEST.