{"id":87190,"date":"2010-04-05T21:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cryosat-2-arrives-at-baikonur\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T21:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:31:53","slug":"cryosat-2-arrives-at-baikonur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cryosat-2-arrives-at-baikonur\/","title":{"rendered":"CryoSat-2 Arrives at Baikonur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-05-10] The <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2018s (ESA) CryoSat-2 ice satellite has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and has been integrated with the Dnepr rocket in preparation for its April 8 launch, the ESA announced April 2.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite will be powered up and tested April 3, with simulations to test communication sequences and procedures between the launch site and ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre in Germany the next day. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CryoSat-2 is the ESA\u2019s third Earth Explorer mission to be launched in the last year following the SMOS mission, launched in November, and the GOCE mission, launched in March 2009.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">CryoSat-2 Launch Delayed<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 22, 2010<br \/>\n[02-22-10] Russian launch  provider Kosmotras has postponed the launch of the European Space  Agency\u2019s (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite due to technical issues with the  Dnepr rocket s second stage steering engine, ESA announced Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thales Alenia Space Ships SMOS to Plesetsk Cosmodrome<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 18, 2009<br \/>\n[09-18-09] Thales Alenia Space  has shipped the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Earth  observation satellite to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, for its  scheduled Nov. 2 launch, Thales Alenia Space announced.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thales Delivers SIRAL-2<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 11, 2008<br \/>\n[  2-11-08] Thales Alenia  Space has delivered SIRAL-2, the synthetic aperture interferometric  radar altimeter for the CryoSat-2 mission, to prime contractor EADS  Astrium, Thales announced Feb. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-05-10] The European Space Agency\u2018s (ESA) CryoSat-2 ice satellite has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and has been integrated with the Dnepr rocket in preparation for its April 8 launch, the ESA announced April 2. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite will be powered up and tested April 3, with simulations to test communication sequences and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}