ESA launches first Earth Explorer mission GOCE
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 11:08
in Astronomy & Space
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.