{"id":49377,"date":"2013-11-11T14:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T10:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=49377"},"modified":"2013-11-11T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T10:48:01","slug":"falling-european-satellite-burns-up-upon-re-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=49377","title":{"rendered":"Falling European satellite burns up upon re-entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2,000-pound European satellite burned up as it re-entered Earth&#8217;s atmosphere early Monday, controllers reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As expected, the satellite disintegrated in the high atmosphere and no damage to property has been reported,&#8221; the European Space Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer &#8212; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA\" target=\"_blank\">European Space Agency<\/a> satellite known shorthand as GOCE &#8212; crossed over Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica upon its re-entry.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-meter (16-foot) satellite was launched in 2009 to map variations in the Earth&#8217;s gravity in 3-D, provide ocean circulation patterns and make other measurements.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by solar panels and not-your-average lithium-ion battery, it lasted more than three times its expected lifespan before running out of juice on October 21.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2011, the ESA added another role &#8212; as the &#8220;first seismometer in orbit&#8221; &#8212; when GOCE detected sound waves from the massive earthquake that struck Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2,000-pound European satellite burned up as it re-entered Earth&#8217;s atmosphere early Monday, controllers reported&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}