CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- CryoSat-2
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Full Name
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CryoSat-2
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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 | data access portal
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EOL Date
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Dec 2025
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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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Repeat Cycle
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369 days
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Objectives and Applications
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Cryosat-2 is Europe's first ice mission aimed to determine variations in the thickness of the Earth's continental ice sheets and marine ice cover. The repeat cycle is 369 days (NB no repetitivity after the change of orbit in July 2020). LST is 0.25 degree nodal regression per day (it drifts through all local times)
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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 29  )
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
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Surface Eleva ...
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 31 results: browser , table )
CryoSat products
ESA Sea Level Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Level_cci): Time series of gridded Sea Level Anomalies ...
ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Southern hemisphere sea ice thickness from Cry...
ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Northern hemisphere sea ice thickness from Cry...
ESA Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Ice_cci): Southern hemisphere sea ice thickness from the...
ESA Sea Level Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Level_cci): Fundamental Climate Data Records of sea lev...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Ananlyses of the Global mean sea level change, ocean circulation, sea level ri...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Global sea-level budget, Antarctic mass balance interpretation, Greenland mass...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Model initialisation and evaluation, global warming. Reference: Allard et al....
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Model initialisation and evaluation, global warming. Reference: Allard et al....
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