GFZ POTSDAM – After 58277 orbits it was finally all over: in the afternoon of 19. September the georesearch satellite CHAMP burned up in space . Exactly 10 years, two months and 4 days after going into orbit, the satellite ended its mission over the Sea of Okhotsk. Professor Hermann Lühr, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, communicated this news. Up until the end, Hermann Lühr was responsible for the evaluation of the magnetic field data measured by CHAMP: “CHAMP was last located above the German station Weilheim on Sunday at 10:26 CEST. Read More
