ESA launches Earth Explorer mission GOCE

ESA PR 06-2009. This afternoon, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) was lofted into a near-Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit by a Rockot launcher lifting off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMH3NITYRF_index_0.html

Time: 17. Mar. 2009

Feed: ESA Top News

Topics: earth, esa, explorer, goce