GRACE-FO mission was launched in May 2018 to continue the unprecedented success achieved by the original GRACE mission. Since its launch, the GRACE-FO mission has continued the measurement of variations in the Earth’s gravity field, and is providing datasets that enable scientists to develop an even deeper understanding of long-term global climate processes.

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission is a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). GRACE-FO is a successor to the original GRACE mission, which orbited Earth from 2002-2017. GRACE-FO carries on the extremely successful work of its predecessor while testing a new technology designed to dramatically improve the already remarkable precision of its measurement system. The new and innovative Laser Ranging Interferometer technology has been successfully demonstrated, and provides high quality measurements.

Scientist at CSR have contributed towards system engineering, inflight calibrations, science operations management and science data system effort for the mission.