ESA tries again, GOCE to go today

by | Mar 17, 2009 | ESA, Russia | 0 comments

Halted at 7s from blast off yesterday the European Space Agency and its Russian Rockot launch provider EUrockot, the EADS Astrium, Khrunichev Space Center joint venture, will try to send the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk launch complex at 1721h local time (1421h GMT) today

You can follow the agency’s twitter feed here, look at pretty pictures in the Flickr feed here and watch it on ESA television here or gaze at the mission control webcam in the mean time here. Below is the Google map satellite image of Plesestk cosmodrome, you might want to pan out a little…

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