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<H1><CLARI-ITEM HEADLINE>CyroSat: Ready for launch from
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<P> PARIS, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it's
ready to launch the most sophisticated satellite ever created to
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investigate the Earth's ice fields.</P>
<P> The CryoSat spacecraft is to lift off at 8:57 a.m. EST, Feb.
25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reach an orbit 435
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miles above Earth.</P>
<P> CryoSat will be the third of ESA's Earth Explorer satellites
in orbit, following GOCE, launched in March 2009, and SMOS, launched
in November 2009. It was to be the first device in the Earth
Explorer series but the first satellite was lost as a result of a
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launcher failure in October 2005, the space agency said.</P>
<P> CryoSat will carry the first all-weather microwave radar
altimeter that will be used to determine changes in the thickness of
both floating sea ice, which can be up to several feet, and polar
land ice sheets, which in Antarctica can be more than 3 miles,
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officials said.</P>
<P> The mission is designed to deliver data on the rate of
change of the ice thickness accurate to within 1 centimeter, the ESA
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said.</P>
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