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10.02.2011 13:48 Age: 14 yrs

40th anniversary for the French space geodesy research centre

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GRGS (Groupe de Recherche de Géodésie Spatiale), the French space geodesy research centre celebrates its 40 years of research on 17 February 2011.

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Funded in 1971, GRGS is a scientific group that inludes 10 french research teams belonging to national institutions with activities in space geodesy: calibration for altimetry data, terrestrial and celestial reference systems, Earth's motion, gravitational field of Earth, localisation of ground Doris beacons, orbital mechanics... Further information on the <link http: grgs.omp.obs-mip.fr _blank external-link-new-window>GRGS website.