SpaceX rocket blasts off water-tracking satellite duo
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-spacex-rocket-blasts-water-tracking-satellite.html
The $521 million payload is called the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO).
It picks up from GRACE, a satellite pair that launched in 2002 and tracked, among other things, precisely how much ice was lost each year in Greenland and Antarctica until 2017.
SpaceX rocket blasts off water-tracking satellite duo
May 22, 2018, 11:33pm UTC
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-spacex-rocket-blasts-water-tracking-satellite.html
> The $521 million payload is called the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO).
> It picks up from GRACE, a satellite pair that launched in 2002 and tracked, among other things, precisely how much ice was lost each year in Greenland and Antarctica until 2017.