jeudi 7 janvier 2010

Antonov 124-100














This is the type of Cargo plane that will transport the CryoSat-2 Spacecraft from Munich to Baikonur.

Planned trip:

Munich-Ulianovsk
Ulianovsk-Baikonur (Yubileynyi). The airport inside the cosmodrome

mardi 5 janvier 2010

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.