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GOCE reenter earth with no idea of landing site
- lotsofcows 13y agoThis has hit a couple of new sites I read but I'm still not sure what the story is. Something that was never intended to land doesn't have a landing site. In related news, my can of coke doesn't have a landing site either.
- deletes 13y agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6702472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6702472 http://www.n2yo.com/ http://www.n2yo.com/ says: GOCE has re-entered the atmosphere Here is a good description on what happened: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/satellite-falls-earth-death-dive_n_4252796.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/satellite-falls-ear...
- exDM69 13y agoThe title of this post is misleading and inaccurate. The original title was "GOCE gives in to gravity". Further, the post says: "GOCE satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica." While this may seem like a rather wide area, there's still a very good idea where the debris re-entered. "No idea" is very far from the truth. Given that it is known which orbit it fell on, that already excludes most of the Earth's surface area. What is left is a narrow, sinusoidal line (the ground track), which is a rather good estimate where it fell. As far as I know, there are no better observations (ie. radar tracking) available, but we've still got a decent estimate. Please change this shameful link bait title to better match HN guidelines about post submissions.
- nknighthb 13y agoIt's even less accurate than you think. Its reentry was photographed from the Falklands. http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2013/11/11/goce-burning-last-orbital-view/ http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2013/11/11/goce-burning-l...