2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
CryoSat-2
Ice-sheet and sea-ice elevation monitoring.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2010
- Lead / partner
- ESA
- Target
- Earth orbit
- Category
- Earth science
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Dnepr
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Geocentric
- Duration
- 3 years (planned) Elapsed:
Why it happened
CryoSat-2 flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of ESA's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Ice-sheet and sea-ice elevation monitoring.
Results
Ice-sheet and sea-ice elevation monitoring.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- European Space Agency, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · license: cc-by-sa-3.0-igo (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
