It's raining satellite: Europe's gravity field explorer to fall back to Earth in two weeks

A one-ton European Space Agency satellite, which for four years has being mapping the Earth's gravity, has run out of fuel and will reenter the atmosphere in two weeks. While its descent is constantly monitored, the impact location is still unknown. The ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), which was launched from Russia in March 2009, managed to spend 2 1/2 more years on its mission than was initially expected. During these extra years of work, it was taken to the lowest altitude orbit of any research satellite to capture the gravity data of unequalled accuracy. More

(Source: Space Daily - Oct 28)