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Following the launch in Spring 2009 and operations of the GOCE satellite (Gravity field and steady state Ocean Circulation Explorer), a new mission made by a long-distance (10 km) satellite formation is under study by European Space Agency. It aims at monitoring, during a 6-year mission, Earth's gravity field fluctuations more or less in the same wavelength band of GOCE (around 100-km Earth surface...