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.