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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GRACE
-
Full Name
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
NASA
,
DLR
,
ESA
, GFZ
Launch Date
17 Mar 2002
Mission Links
mission site
|
data access portal
EOL Date
27 Oct 2017
EO Portal Info
NORAD Catalog #s
27391
(
TLE
),
27392
(
TLE
)
International Designators
2002-012A
,
2002-012B
Orbit Type
Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
91 minutes
Orbit Sense
N/A
Orbit Inclination
89 deg
Orbit Altitude
327 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications
5-year nominal mission life, currently in extended operations. Extremely high precision gravity measurements for use in construction of gravity field models. GRACE consists of two satellites (A, B) serving one mission.
Mission Measurements
Category
Parameter
Instrument(s)
Gravity and Magnetic Fields
Gravity, Magnetic and Geodynamic measurements
GRACE instrument
Land
Soil moisture
GRACE instrument
Ocean
Ocean topography/currents
GRACE instrument
Mission Instruments
GRACE instrument - GRACE instrument
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GRACE Level 1B/2 Data Products
Jan-2017
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission was a joint project between NASA and DLR. The primary science objective of GRACE was to measure the Earth’s gravity field and time variability with unprecedented accuracy. The secondary science objective was to obtain approximately 150 very precise globally distributed vertical temperature and humidity profiles of the atmosphere per day using the GPS radio occultation technique. ESA offers access to worldwide GRACE data via the TPM scheme.
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Clock conversion parameters from receiver to GPS time for GRACE-A
CSR TELLUS GRACE Level-3 Monthly Land Water-Equivalent-Thickness Surface Mass Anomaly Release 6.0 ve ...
CSR TELLUS GRACE Level-3 Monthly Ocean Bottom Pressure Anomaly Release 6.0 version 04
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Gravimetric M ...
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Gravimetric M ...
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Gravimetric M ...
ESA Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Change Initiative (Greenland_Ice_Sheet_cci): Greenland Gravimetric M ...
GFZ TELLUS GRACE Level-3 Monthly Land Water-Equivalent-Thickness Surface Mass Anomaly Release 6.0 ve ...
GFZ TELLUS GRACE Level-3 Monthly Ocean Bottom Pressure Anomaly Release 6.0 version 04
GRACE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN DE-ALIASING GFZ RELEASE 6.0
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