Category: News of the other missions
Esa's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (Goce) has been developed to improve the knowledge about the gravity field. An accurate gravity map -the geoid- is also crucial for geodesy applications and for defining a sea surface height reference model. Goce will be launched into a sun-synchronous, near-circular polar orbit by a Russian Rockot vehicle on 16 March 2009.

Further information:

• <link http: www.esa.int esalp esayek1vmoc_lpgoce_0.html _blank external-link-new-window>Goce on Esa website.