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Cryosat was a
remote sensing satellite which was to measure the thickness of the
sheets of ice sheets and polar ocean sea-ice cover with
unprecedented accuracy for three years.
Cryosat was to be the first Earth
Explorer mission in European Space Agency's Living Planet
Programme. Cryosat was unsuccessfully launched by a Eurorockot booster from
Plesetsk, Russia on October 8, 2005 when the second stage engine
of the modified Russian SS-19 ICBM did not cut-off as planned.
Cryosat satellite and was to be placed
into a 720km polar orbit and will be equipped with a double
radar scanner and a laser retro-reflector.
CryoSat-2 Satellite
The CryoSat-2 satellite replaces
CryoSat, which was lost as a result of launch failure in October
2005. With climate change bringing about the threat of receding
ice cover, the need to understand the extent to which this may
be happening is even more relevant today than it was when the
first CryoSat was selected for development in 1999.
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Space Science
by Stacia E. Zabusky (Author)
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