New climate satellite reaches orbit

The European Space Agency successfully launched a new satellite designed to measure the effects of global warming on Earth’s polar ice caps today.

New climate satellite reaches orbit
Thu, 08 Apr, 2010 - 16:36

The European Space Agency successfully launched a new satellite designed to measure the effects of global warming on Earth’s polar ice caps today.

ESA said it received a signal from CryoSat 2 after it took off on a Russian launcher rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, meaning lift-off was successful.

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