Satellite
CryoSat-2
ESA’s ice mission: since 2010 its radar measures the thickness of sea ice and the height of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to the centimetre.
- Catalogue name
- CRYOSAT 2
- NORAD ID
- 36508
- Owner
- European Space Agency
- Launched
- April 8, 2010
- Altitude (perigee – apogee)
- 725 – 728 km
- Orbital period
- 99.2 min
- Inclination
- 92°