Updates GOCE Mission News

[Ghostrider]

Lol, straight over the Falkland and I'm reading Vulcan 607 right now - which is the story of how the RAF bombed the islands with the old bombers. Right now they would have to colony-drop a satellite.

 

[Mader Levap]

So... this satellite was killed by what it was researching - gravity. Poetic irony, anyone?

 

[ADSWNJ]

So... this satellite was killed by what it was researching - gravity. Poetic irony, anyone?

I don't think Gravity gave it a second thought. Impassive, mean, imperious!

 

[MattBaker]

So... this satellite was killed by what it was researching - gravity. Poetic irony, anyone?

Gravitesque (like in the movie Gravity) poetic irony, not 100% scientifically correct.

The force of gravity on the spacecraft was nearly always the same, a few percent less in orbit but just a few percent.
What killed the satellite was the very very thin layer of upper atmosphere resulting in drag which deorbited it by a very very slow form of aerobraking.

 

[Urwumpe]

Maybe we can say it crashed from lack of fuel...

 

[Notebook]

Gravity, no moving parts, still works though...

N.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Lack of fuel, presence of an atmosphere, and some incredible solar activity (affecting the atmosphere).

 

[orb]

ESA:

 

[Notebook]

Bit of a tenuous link, but probably best place for this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38333629

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[Notebook]

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/O...uishy_interior_gives_rapid_rise_to_Antarctica

22 June 2018
Parts of Earth’s crust are rising very slowly owing to post-glacial rebound, but using GPS, researchers have found that West Antarctica is rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world. And, ESA’s GOCE gravity mission has, in turn, helped them to understand that the mantle below is unusually fluid.

 

[Notebook]

7 November 2018
It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost continents hidden deep under the ice sheet of Antarctica.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/O...ics_of_ancient_continents_under_Antarctic_ice

 

[Notebook]

20 March 2019
Ten years ago, ESA launched one of its most innovative satellites. GOCE spent four years measuring a fundamental force of nature: gravity. This extraordinary mission not only yielded new insights into our gravity field, but led to some amazing discoveries about our planet, from deep below the surface to high up in the atmosphere and beyond. And, this remarkable mission continues to realise new science today.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/Taking_gravity_from_strength_to_strength

 

[Notebook]

GOCE reveals what’s going on deep below Antarctica

http://www.esa.int/Applications/Obs...reveals_what_s_going_on_deep_below_Antarctica