GOCE will re-enter later this year

From: Marco Langbroek (marco.langbroek@online.nl)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2013 - 08:48:40 UTC

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    ESA's GOCE gravity probe (2009-013A) will undergo an uncontrolled re-entry later 
    this year or early 2014. It's ion engine is expected to cut off somewhere 
    between late September and November.
    
    Some 250 kg in fragments is expected to survive.
    
    - Marco
    
    
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