GOCE: Critical operations ongoing
Submit on Friday, March 20th, 2009 05:58
After lift-off on 17 March, ESA’s GOCE spacecraft is performing very well, having achieved an extremely accurate injection altitude of 283.5 km, just 1.5 km lower than planned, the agency said. The Mission Control Team is now working round-the-clock shifts to implement a series of critical check-out procedures.
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