{"id":87460,"date":"2010-02-22T18:55:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T10:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cryosat-2-launch-delayed\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T18:55:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T10:55:49","slug":"cryosat-2-launch-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cryosat-2-launch-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"CryoSat-2 Launch Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-22-10] Russian launch provider <strong>Kosmotras<\/strong> has postponed the launch of the<strong> European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2018s (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite due to technical issues with the Dnepr rocket\u201as second stage steering engine, ESA announced Feb. 19.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Yuzhnoye<\/strong>, the Ukrainian manufacturer of the Dnepr, said insufficient fuel reserves for the second stage engine would require additional review and safety measures. The launch, originally scheduled for Feb. 25 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, has yet to be rescheduled.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The ESA CyroSat-2 is designed to fly at a highly inclined polar orbit, reaching latitudes of 88 degree north and south, in order to monitor changes in the thickness of sea ice and variations in the thickness of the ice sheets on land.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<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\">Director General: ESA Will See Several Major Launches  This Year<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSMD Report&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 19, 2009<br \/>\nThe European Space Agency will see several  major spacecraft launches this year, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques  Dordain said. Among major spacecraft being orbited are Herschel-Planck,  GOCE, SMOS and CryoSat-2, he said. ESA also will make final\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ESA Gives CryoSat Update<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 13, 2007<br \/>\n[3\/13\/07] The European Space Agency (ESA) has  given an update on the CryoSat-2 mission, reporting that by the end of  the year, CryoSat-2 will be almost fully assembled.     Richard Francis,  ESA\u2019s CryoSat-2 project manager, said the agency  has hit\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-22-10] Russian launch provider Kosmotras has postponed the launch of the European Space Agency\u2018s (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite due to technical issues with the Dnepr rocket\u201as second stage steering engine, ESA announced Feb. 19. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yuzhnoye, the Ukrainian manufacturer of the Dnepr, said insufficient fuel reserves for the second stage engine would require additional review 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-87460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87460"}],"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=87460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}