New Satellite to Measure Gravity Lifts Off
The spacecraft will measure the earth’s gravitational field with new accuracy.
A European Space Agency satellite called GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) will measure the earth’s gravitational field with unprecedented accuracy. Here GOCE is seen undergoing tests at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia in August 2008. The satellite was originally scheduled to launch in late August, but the launch was postponed until March 2009.
Credit: ESA
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