ESA's GOCE

[SteveMckay]

<span class="984485400-27102008"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span class="984485400-27102008"><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span class="984485400-27102008"><font size="2"><font face="Arial">This is one sexy looking satellite! <span class="984485400-27102008">Seems like 20 months is insufficient to properly map ocean level changes. Too bad we don't have a cost effective way to refuel in orbit.</span></font></font></span></font></font></span></font></font></span> <p><font size="2">http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=I&mission=GOCE&single=y&start=52&size=b</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[JonClarke]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>This is one sexy looking satellite! Seems like 20 months is insufficient to properly map ocean level changes. Too bad we don't have a cost effective way to refuel in orbit. http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=I&mission=GOCE&single=y&start=52&size=b <br />Posted by SteveMckay</DIV></p><p>Sexy indeed!&nbsp; Great looks, great mission, and ion propulsion as well.&nbsp; A&nbsp; colleagues husbands did some work on this mission.</p><p>Jon<br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars</em>  Arthur Clarke</p> </div>

 

[montmein69]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Sexy indeed!&nbsp; Great looks, great mission, and ion propulsion as well.&nbsp; </DIV></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The launch is now postponed to february 2009, due to some troubleshooting&nbsp; in the upper stage Breeze KM of the rockot launcher</p>http://www.eurockot.com/alist.asp?cnt=20040981&main=5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>