GOCE Lift-Off
March 17, 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. credit: NASA
Topics:
Environment, Spaceflight, Nature, Space, Living Planet Programme, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Rokot, Space exploration, Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer, Gravimetry, European Space Agency, ESA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Russia, Ocean Circulation Explorer, Sun