{"id":833,"date":"2009-03-12T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T20:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2017-04-22T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T21:53:34","slug":"goce-ready-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"GOCE Ready For Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7cKjZUvalzo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left;\">\n<div style=\"float: left;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px; padding: 1px; border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"launch tower at Plesetsk\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/goce-launch-tower-at-plesetsk-low.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/><small>Credits: ESA &#8211; S. Corvaja<\/small>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 10px;\">ESA is about to launch a satellite capable of measuring very small variations in the Earth\u2019s gravitational field. Determining the variations in the Earth\u2019s gravitational field will improve our knowledge of ocean circulation, and will also help to make advances in geodesy and surveying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 10px;\">The satellite is called Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE). GOCE is the most advanced gravity space mission to date. Scientists will build a detailed map of Earth\u2019s gravity using data collected by GOCE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 10px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=175\">Read more about GOCE&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>x;>ESA is about to launch a satellite capable of measuring very small variations in the Earth\u2019s gravitational field. Determining the variations in the Earth\u2019s gravitational field will improve our knowledge of ocean circulation, and will also help to make advances in geodesy and surveying.<\/p>\n<p style=padding: 10px;>The satellite is called Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}