{"id":86258,"date":"2010-09-08T19:33:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esas-goce-recovers-from-computer-glitch\/"},"modified":"2010-09-08T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T11:33:19","slug":"esas-goce-recovers-from-computer-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esas-goce-recovers-from-computer-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s GOCE Recovers From Computer Glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-08-10] <strong>The European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2018s (ESA) Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite has recovered from a late July computer glitch and has resumed collecting data, the agency announced Sept. 7.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The $444 million GOCE satellite resumed normal operations after engineers raised the spacecraft\u2019s temperature by about 7 degrees Celsius, ESA officials said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The anomaly, which ESA attributed to a communications link between processor and telemetry modules in a backup unit, put GOCE out of commission for almost two months while engineers worked on software patches to restore the satellite\u2019s capacity. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In February, a primary computer chip on the spacecraft failed, forcing GOCE\u2019s engineers to switch the satellite over to its backup computer. ESA said the two incidents are not related.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GOCE, manufactured by <strong>Astrium<\/strong> and launched in March 2009, aims to monitor variations in Earth\u2019s gravity caused by ocean trenches, mountains and differences in density to predict how these changes could affect global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-08-10] The European Space Agency\u2018s (ESA) Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite has recovered from a late July computer glitch and has resumed collecting data, the agency announced Sept. 7. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The $444 million GOCE satellite resumed normal operations after engineers raised the spacecraft\u2019s temperature by about 7 degrees Celsius, ESA officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}