This Rockot successfully launched ESA's GOCE gravity-field mission from Plesetsk on 17 March 2009. Two Breeze-KM burns released the 1,052-kilogram spacecraft into a 283-kilometer polar orbit.
This Rockot successfully launched ESA's GOCE gravity-field mission from Plesetsk on 17 March 2009. Two Breeze-KM burns released the 1,052-kilogram spacecraft into a 283-kilometer polar orbit.