A 2,000-pound European satellite has run out of fuel and will plunge back to Earth sometime between 5:30 P.M. EST and 7:30 P.M., a spokesman for Europe's Space Debris Office told FoxNews.com. As of ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite was launched on March 17, 2009, as the first of a series of Earth Explorer satellites. Its ...

MUNICH — European Earth observation managers said the GOCE satellite measuring the Earth’s gravity field has returned such exceptional data in the two years since its launch that its mission will ...

The European Space Agency says its 1.2-ton GOCE gravity-mapping satellite plunged through the atmosphere on Sunday and broke up into bits over the South Atlantic Ocean. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

PARIS — Europe’s GOCE gravity-measurement satellite, which broke up in the atmosphere as scheduled early Nov. 11, continued to generate useful data as it was pulled into Earth’s atmosphere and the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Update: The European GOCE satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Sunday (Nov. 10) and burned ...

A European-built satellite built to map Earth's gravity like never before is about to fall victim to the planet's ever-present gravitational pull. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

The sky isn’t falling — just a 2,000-pound satellite. The European Space Agency says their research satellite that lost fuel in mid-October re-entered Earth’s atmosphere shortly before 7 p.m. EST. The ...

A European gravity-mapping satellite has run out of fuel and will likely die a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere about two weeks from now, officials say. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean ...

ESA's GOCE satellite has been orbiting the Earth for more than a year and surveying its gravitational field more accurately than any instrument previously. The goal of the researchers - including ...

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