ESA launches first Earth Explorer mission GOCE
By Tim Hewison, posted on March 21st, 2009 in Earth Observation, Technology, Water
Originally Published by Observing the Earth
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.
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