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Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer
ESA satellite which mapped Earth's gravity field. Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer was launched on March 17, 2009 aboard a Rokot from Plesetsk. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Nov 11, 2013).
COSPAR 2009-013ANORAD 34602European Space Agency
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- GOCE
- Common name
- Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer
- International designator
- 2009-013A
- NORAD catalog number
- 34602
- GCAT identifier
- S34602
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/591
Mission
- Mission type
- Space science
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- Earth Exp
- Owner
- ESA
- Country
- European Space Agency
- Builder
- EADS Astrium Satellites (D), Friedrichsafen
- Platform (bus)
- GOCE
Launch
- Date
- March 17, 2009 · 14:21 UTC
- Launch record
- 2009-013Success
- Rocket
- Rokot
- Spaceport
- Plesetsk · pad LC133/3
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 272 km
- Apogee
- 288 km
- Inclination
- 96.70°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- November 11, 2013
- Last known active
- Nov 10, 2013
- End of operations
- Nov 10, 2013
Size
- Mass
- 1,200 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,200 kg
- Length
- 5.0 m
- Diameter
- 1.00 m
- Span
- 5.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q258697 (CC0).