ESA's gravity satellite moves to launch pad

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 09:14 in Astronomy & Space

With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft – encased in the protective two half shells of the launcher fairing – has been transported from the clean room and installed in the launch tower at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

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