CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- CryoSat-2
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Full Name
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CryoSat-2 (Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission)
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Status
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Operational (extended)
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Mission Agencies
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ESA
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Launch Date
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08 Apr 2010
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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Dec 2024
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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36508 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2010-013A
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Orbit Type
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Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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100 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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N/A
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Orbit Inclination
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92 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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717 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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0.25 degree nodal regression per day
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Repeat Cycle
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369 days
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Objectives and Applications
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To determine fluctuations in the mass of the Earth’s major land and marine ice fields.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 114 ) CDDIS_DORIS_data_cycle  CDDIS_DORIS_data_rinex  CDDIS_DORIS_products_positions  CDDIS_DORIS_products_stcd  CDDIS_SLR_predictions  CryoSat products  CryoSat-2 Level-1B Waveforms, Sea Ice Elevation, and Surface Roughness V001  CryoSat-2 Level-4 Sea Ice Elevation, Freeboard, and Thickness V001  CryoSat-2 Sea Ice Freeboard, Thickness, and Snow Depth Quick Look, Version 1  ECCO Atmosphere Surface Temperature, Humidity, Wind, and Pressure - Daily Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 ... ![This dataset contains daily-averaged atmosphere surface temperature, humidity, wind, and pressure interpolated to a regular 0.5-degree grid from the ECCO Version 4 revision 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimate. Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) ocean and sea-ice state estimates are dynamically and kinematically-consistent reconstructions of the three-dimensional, time-evolving ocean, sea-ice, and surface atmospheric states. ECCO V4r4 is a free-running solution of the 1-degree global configuration of the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) that has been fit to observations in a least-squares sense. Observational data constraints used in V4r4 include sea surface height (SSH) from satellite altimeters [ERS-1/2, TOPEX/Poseidon, GFO, ENVISAT, Jason-1,2,3, CryoSat-2, and SARAL/AltiKa]; sea surface temperature (SST) from satellite radiometers [AVHRR], sea surface salinity (SSS) from the Aquarius satellite radiometer/scatterometer, ocean bottom pressure (OBP) from the GRACE satellite gravimeter; sea ice concentration from satellite radiometers [SSM/I and SSMIS], and in-situ ocean temperature and salinity measured with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors and expendable bathythermographs (XBTs) from several programs [e.g., WOCE, GO-SHIP, Argo, and others] and platforms [e.g.,research vessels, gliders, moorings, ice-tethered profilers, and instrumented pinnipeds]. V4r4 covers the period 1992-01-01T12:00:00 to 2018-01-01T00:00:00.](/Images/offsite_link.png)
Want to explore more? Try FedEO by ESA or CMR OpenSearch by NASA 
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