GRACE-C

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment -Continuation

future Mission

GRACE-C is a successor to the original GRACE and GRACE-FO missions, which orbited Earth from 2002 to the present day. GRACE-C will track Earth's water movement.

Type

Orbiter

Launch

December 2028

Target

Earth

Objective

Tracking the water cycle, glaciers, sea level changes
Learn more about the GRACE Missions

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The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, as shown in this illustration, is the first global mission surveying Earth's surface water. SWOT's high-resolution data helps scientists measure how Earth's bodies of water change overtime.
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