GOCE begins its journey to launch site

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 13:14 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.

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