NASA-GFZ Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Twin Spacecraft
Twin Earth-observation spacecraft mapping time-varying gravity to reveal movement of water, ice and solid Earth mass.
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Identity
- Aliases
- GRACEGravity Recovery and Climate ExperimentGRACE-1GRACE-2
- Family Name
- GRACE
- Full Name
- NASA-GFZ Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Twin Spacecraft
- Roles
- earth_observationresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- Twin Earth-observation spacecraft mapping time-varying gravity to reveal movement of water, ice and solid Earth mass.
- First Flight Year
- 2,002
- Last Flight Year
- 2,017
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 21:44:27 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 21:44:27 UTC