Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
GOCE
The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) was the first of ESA's Living Planet Programme satellites intended to map in unprecedented detail the Earth's gravity field. The spacecraft's primary instrumentation was a highly sensitive gravity gradiometer consisting of three pairs of accelerometers that measured gravitational gradients along three orthogonal axes.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,077.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
Site 133/3, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Stats
2009
14th orbital launch attempt
Eurockot Launch Services
8th mission
1st mission of 2009
7th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission
Rokot
13th mission
1st mission of 2009
12th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission