Computer glitch stalls Europe’s GOCE gravity satellite

BBC : The European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer, which measures Earth’s gravity field from space with a precision of 10 ^-5 ms ^-2, cannot beam down its data because of a computer problem, the second to beset GOCE since its launch in March last year. Despite the interruption in the flow of data, the mission has already produced the most accurate map of Earth’s gravity .