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Introducing the GOCE Earth Explorer satellite

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Introducing the GOCE Earth Explorer satellite

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European Space Agency, ESA

6 Views • Aug 19, 2015

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To achieve its crucial scientific objectives, ESA's 'Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer', or GOCE, satellite must orbit as low as possible, in order to sense minute variations in the Earth's gravitational field - at the edge of space and the limits of the atmosphere at only 268 km!

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