GOCE begins its journey to launch site

GOCE, the first of a series of Earth Explorer satellites to be launched into orbit, has taken off aboard an Antonov-124 cargo aircraft for its flight to the Arkhangelsk Airport in Russia, en route to Russia?s Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km north of Moscow.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM91QXIPIF_index_0.html

Time: 29. Jul. 2008

Feed: ESA Top News

Topics: goce, its