ICECUBE
Satellite information ICECUBE
| Spacetrack Directory Name | ICECUBE |
| Orbit launches |
1998-11-20 |
| Deorbitation date |
2018-10-03 |
| Days in orbit | 7257 |
| Country/organisation of origin | USA (US) |
| Starting point | TYMSC (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan) |
| WWW | Here |
Additional information ICECUBE
Demonstrate and validate a new 883-gigahertz submillimeter-wave receiver that could help advance scientists? understanding of ice clouds and their role in climate change. IceCube will lead to the development of an instrument capable of providing an accurate daily assessment of the global distribution of atmospheric ice. Knowing this distribution will help scientists describe the linkage between the hydrologic and energy cycles in the climate system. Ice clouds ultimately are a product of precipitating cloud systems and dramatically affect Earth?s emission of infrared energy into space and its reflection and absorption of the sun?s energy. To this day, the amount of atmospheric ice on a global scale remains highly uncertain.
