DARMSTADT, Germany —Europe’s CryoSat-2 polar-ice-monitoring Earth observation satellite was successfully launched April 8 aboard a Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket and is expected to undergo a six-month ...

PARIS — The scheduled Feb. 25 launch of Europe’s Cryosat-2 polar ice monitoring satellite has been postponed for at least several weeks following an assessment by designers of the Russian-Ukrainian ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of how Earth's ice fields are changing has come another step closer as the first data from ESA's ice mission are released to selected scientists around the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technical issue with the second stage of the Dnepr rocket that delayed the launch of ESA's Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite in February has now been resolved - and the new ...

Participants at the Living Planet Symposium have been hearing about the European Space's most recently launched mission, CryoSat-2. In orbit for almost three months, the satellite is in excellent ...

Taking advantage of NASA’s ‘Operation Ice Bridge’ campaign, measurements of Arctic sea ice have been made from an aircraft flying directly under CryoSat-2’s orbital path. These measurements offer an ...

Figure 1. A conceptual diagram illustrating the assimilation of Arctic sea ice concentration and the latest CryoSat-2 summer sea ice thickness observations using the ...

Building a satellite in just three years is without doubt an ambitious undertaking. Nevertheless, the decision to rebuild CryoSat and recover the mission includes just that goal. A year on and the ...

Building a satellite in just three years is without doubt an ambitious undertaking. Nevertheless, the decision to rebuild CryoSat and recover the mission includes just that goal. A year on and the ...

Europe's Cryosat-2 spacecraft is set to be sent into orbit to assess the state of ice cover at the Earth's poles. The information will help researchers calculate how melting polar ice affects ocean ...