GOCE's highly sensitive gradiometer instrument has been switched on and is producing data. Forming the heart of GOCE, the gradiometer is specifically designed to measure Earth's gravity field with ...
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite was launched on March 17, 2009, as the first of a series of Earth Explorer satellites. Its ...
BERGEN, Norway — Europe’s GOCE gravity-measuring satellite, which began operations late last year, has lost the use of one of its two on-board computers in what program managers said is a rare, and ...
@T=Europe is set to launch one of its most challenging space missions to date. The Goce satellite will map minute variations in the pull of gravity experienced across the planet. Scientists will use ...
After much speculation about where it would land, the European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday night, around 7 p.m. EST in an area south of the Falkland Islands.
The great Tohoku earthquake in Japan two years ago was so big its effects were even felt at the edge of space. Scientists say the Magnitude 9.0 tremor on 11 March 2011 sent a ripple of sound through ...
MUNICH — European Earth observation managers said the GOCE satellite measuring the Earth’s gravity field has returned such exceptional data in the two years since its launch that its mission will ...
Close to 01:00 CET on Monday 11 November, ESA’s GOCE satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean ...