A Dnepr rocket launched ESA's CryoSat-2 Earth observation satellite from an underground silo at Baikonur. CryoSat-2, a replacement for the CryoSat mission lost in a 2005 launch failure, measures the thickness of polar sea ice and ice sheets.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 770 kg
- Flight
- 14th
- of 22 Dnepr 1 flights
- Date and time
- 8 April 2010, 13:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Dnepr 1
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 109/95, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2010-013
- Launches in 2010
- 13th of 74
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: CryoSat-2
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