Introduction

The purpose of this blog is to provide on an informal basis few details to family, friends and colleagues interested to follow the Launch campaign of the Cryosat-2 (CS-2) Spacecraft that will take place on January and February 2010 in Baikonur (Kazakhstan).

CS-2 is the the ice mission of The European Space Agency (ESA). The prime Contractor for the spacecraft is ASTRIUM based in Friedrichshafen Germany.


A presentation abstract of the CS-2 mission has been recently released to the Geographical Research.

Launch is scheduled at the moment on February 25th, 2010 on a DNIEPR launcher.

So the launch campaign starting from 11/01/2010 up to 02/03/2010 will in principle last approximately 7 weeks.