Latest CryoSat Stories

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Space Agency's Cryosat research satellite crashed into the sea after its launch rocket failed, the Russian agency that launched it was quoted as saying on Saturday. "We believe that the satellite, together with part of the rocket, fell where the second rocket stage is supposed to fall, that is in the Lincoln Sea, near the North Pole," Itar-Tass news agency quoted Russian Space Troops official Oleg Gromov as saying.

ESA -- The expectations of ice researchers across Europe are currently focused on a region of taiga woodland in Russia's far north. Located in a forest clearing is Pad LC133 of Plesetsk Cosmodrome, where above the tree-line on a Rockot launcher stands ESA's CryoSat satellite, due to start its flight into orbit this Saturday at 17:02 CEST. The first of ESA's Earth Explorer series - missions tailored to respond to particular needs of the Earth science community - CryoSat will use a...

ESA -- Until now satellites have not been able to monitor melting of ice at the very point where it is most significant: at the ice edge. CryoSat's ability to do just that thrills scientists working in the field. "CryoSat will pave the way for a better understanding of what happens to the ice at the exact point where things are the most interesting: at the ice edge where the majority of the melting takes place," says Danish glaciologist Carl Egede Bøggild. Part of the...

ESA -- Maps of Antarctica need to be amended. The long-awaited collision between the vast B-15A iceberg and the landfast Drygalski ice tongue has taken place. This Envisat radar image shows the ice tongue "“ large and permanent enough to feature in Antarctic atlases - has come off worst.An image acquired by Envisat on 15 April 2005 shows that a five-kilometre-long section at the seaward end of Drygalski has broken off following a collision with the drifting B-15A. The iceberg itself appears...