CryoSat-2 (Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission)

European Space Agency
April, 2010 to September, 2015

CryoSat-2 is the follow-on Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission in ESA's Living Planet Program. It replaces CryoSat, which was selected for development in 1999 and lost as a result of launch failure on October 8, 2005. CryoSat-2 will have the same mission objectives as the original CryoSat mission; it will monitor the thickness of land ice and sea ice and help explain the connection between the melting of the polar ice and the rise in sea levels and how this is contributing to climate change.

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http://www.esa.int/cryosat

Instrument	Datasets
Laser Reflectors	0
SAR Interferometer Radar Altimeter	1
Doppler Orbitography and Radio-positioning Integrated by Satellite-NG	1

Also known as :

• missionID 529 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission CryoSat-2 (ceos lexicon)
• resource CryoSat-2 (dbpedia lexicon)
• Platform Cryosat-2 (podaac lexicon)