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ESA's latest satellite looks like a Star Wars Ship

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London : United Kingdom | about 1 year ago  
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ESA's latest satellite looks like a Star Wars Ship

The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth's gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet - the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.

The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will be placed onto a low altitude near sun-synchronous orbit by a Russian Rockot vehicle launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia, some 800 km north of Moscow. Lift-off is scheduled to take place at 16:21 CEST (14:21 UTC) on Wednesday 10 September. The launcher is operated by Eurockot Launch Services, a joint venture between EADS Astrium and the Khrunichev Space Centre (Russia).

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Posted By Tangerine Tangerine | about 1 year ago

That’s a full-size and driveable replica of Luke Skywalker’s
Landspeeder from Star Wars, built by Daniel Deutsch in his own garage:


We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder last
spring from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric
drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is
the same size as the original, and can travel several miles on a single
battery charge.

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