The set of panels below provide an overview of ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Explorer (GOCE) mission.
GOCE, the first in a series of Earth Explorer missions, is dedicated to measuring the Earth's gravity field and modelling the geoid with unprecedented accuracy and spatial resolution. Data from this advanced gravity mission will improve our knowledge of ocean circulation, help define a global height reference system – which will contribute to understanding more about sea-level change, provide a better insight into Earth-interior process as well as help make significant advances in geodesy and surveying.
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Backdrops: 400 x 200 cm
Panels: 70 x 100 cm
The GOCE satellite, based on cuttingedge
technology and built by an
all-European industrial consortium
of 45 companies, is an outstanding
example of what European cooperation
can achieve.
The satellite is designed to fl y in an
extremly low orbit, about 260 km
above Earth. The fi nely controlled
thrust of an ion engine, combined
with GOCE’s sleek aerodynamic
shape, will actively compensate for
the air drag.
