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A news item involving Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 17 March 2009.

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Most beatuiful sat.

Should this also be included,it has been refered as this by many news papers.yousaf465'

will be or is?

Other payload will be an onboard GPS receiver used as a Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking Instrument (SSTI)

I presume this should be 'is' not 'will be' - if it has been launched into space, I doubt any more instruments are going to be added to it. But maybe it wasn't put on, I know nothing about the subject. --86.128.12.102 (talk) 19:36, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Capabilities?

So what can this do that GRACE cannot? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.191.224.198 (talk) 04:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

At the end

Does anyone have a source for a (continously updated) prediction of reentry-time and -lokation --Itu (talk) 22:12, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=34602U kencf0618 (talk) 17:28, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The re-entry is expected to occur between 18:30 UTC - 24:00 UTC, Sunday, 10 November? Isn't it already past 18:30 UTC? --Uncle Ed (talk) 21:33, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

15 to 20 square yards

I am removing the assertion Debris from the satellite are expected to endanger an area from 15 to 20 square yards. from the article. Editor Ed Poor reverts my edit.

The idea that the re-entering satellite's broken up pieces will neatly deposit themselves on the area of a small rug is obviously quite silly.

Here is how various web sites report the claim:

"debris will endanger anyone within 15 to 20 yards of the impact." [1]
"the largest piece of debris will cover around 15 to 20 square yard"[2]
"debris will endanger about 15 to 20 square yards of the Earth's surface."[3]
"will affect an area approximately 13 to 18 metres squared."[4]

So which is it? You are ok if you are further than 15 yards from a falling piece, or the largest piece will be 4x4 yards in size, or there will be hole in the ground of 4x4 yards, or a hole of 13x13 meters (10 times bigger than the 4x4 hole)? Maybe we shouldn't participate with the press playing Chinese whispers.

It's not about whether the "source is an astrophysicist", it's about if the reporter between the astrophysicist and us has a brain on his shoulders, and most press don't. Please think if a re-entering satellite lands in a neat tiny pile. (Sorry about the long rant, didn't have the time to make it shorter.) 88.112.41.6 (talk) 00:26, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Editor Ed Poor: you have apparently made it impossible to send you messages through your talk page (why is that even allowed?) If you can see this, please discuss the issue here rather than edit warring. 88.112.41.6 (talk) 00:37, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]