European Gravity Measurement Satellite Orbited Via Rockot

The European Space Agency’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite was launched March 17 aboard a Russian Rockot launch vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, following a 24-hour hold. The hold on the previous day – with seven seconds left on the clock – was due to an...

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