A Rokot/Briz-KM launched ESA's GOCE satellite from Plesetsk into a sun-synchronous orbit to map Earth's gravity field with unprecedented precision using a highly sensitive three-axis gravity gradiometer.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 17 March 2009, 14:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2009-013
- Launches in 2009
- 14th of 78
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