The European Space Agency’s gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation explorer (GOCE) satellite is facing a new software glitch, preventing it from sending its science data back to Earth.
European Space Research and Technology Centre head of mission science Mark Drinkwater told AFP that the problem began to affect the spacecraft GOCE in late July.
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“The satellite’s not transmitting its scientific data because of this anomaly,” he said.
GOCE, launched in March 2009, has been designed to monitor variations in Earth’s gravity caused by ocean trenches, mountains and differences in density in the planet’s interior.
ESA is working on a patch for the glitch, which is expected to be installed onto the satellite though radio link in September 2010, according to Drinkwater.
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