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The European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer series of research-driven satellite missions continues with the upcoming 2nd November launch of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. Known as ESA’s Water Mission, SMOS is the first satellite dedicated to providing global measurements of soil moisture and ocean salinity. The mission’s new technologies will extend key [ READ MORE ]
What a fantastic day…aside the news arriving from the Kepler front regarding the acquisition of its first light it was also the day that the heart of ESA’s GOCE started beating…on this occasion the right person to tell us about what happened returned to Beyond the Cradle, Mark Drinkwater, GOCE Mission Scientist is here one more [ READ MORE ]
This afternoon, after yesterday’s delay, expectations were high at Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, waiting to see if GOCE would finally make it. It did. As I couldn’t, personally, follow the launch, I came running on the first opportunity to check how things went and to post the more recent news, but looks like someone [ READ MORE ]
Expected to reach its destiny today, GOCE, ESA’s mission to map our planet’s gravity field in unprecedented detail, saw its countdown stopped only seven seconds before launch. Behind this decision was the fact of the doors of the launch service tower did not open, helding in position and not moving back. Investigations are under [ READ MORE ]
Dr. Mark Drinkwater GOCE Mission Scientist and Head of Mission Science Division, ESA Earth Observation Programmes The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite to map our planet’s gravity field in unprecedented detail. As part of ESA’s Living Planet Programme, GOCE is the first of [ READ MORE ]
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