GRACE-FO

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on

active Mission

GRACE-FO is a successor to the original GRACE mission, which orbited Earth from 2002-2017. GRACE-FO tracks Earth's water movement.

Type

Orbiter

Launch

May 22, 2018

Target

Earth

Objective

Tracking Earth's water movement
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