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Cryosat-2 Fact Sheet
| Customer |
European Space Agency |
| Mission |
Determine fluctuations in the mass of the Earth’s major land and marine ice fields |
| Orbit |
- Low Earth-orbit, non-Sun-synchronous
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| Spacecraft |
- Aluminium-sandwich structure with two gallium arsenide body‑mounted solar arrays, nominally delivering 800W each
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| Payload |
- SIRAL (SAR Interferometric Radar Altimeter)
- DORIS (Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite)
- LRR (Laser Retro Reflector)
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| Features |
Power: 400W (nominal) - 800W peak |
| Launch Mass |
720kg |
| Dimensions |
4.6m long, 2.34m wide |
| Mission Duration |
Six months of commissioning followed by a three-year operational mission |
| Astrium Responsibilities |
- Spacecraft Integration and Testing
- MMFU (Mass Memory and Formatting Unit)
- PCDU (Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit)
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