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GEOS: Hope from despair?

Nature volume 266, page 767 (1977)Cite this article

Stuart Sharrock in Washington and Chris Sherwell in London report on the ill-starred launch of Geos, the European Space Agency's scientific satellite

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Sharrock, S. GEOS: Hope from despair?. Nature 266, 767 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/266767a0

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