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|  | -- | | GOCE launch campaign at Plesetsk
10 October 2008 Since July 2008 the GOCE Earth Explorer satellite has been at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
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Although GOCE was due to lift-off in September 2008, launch has been postponed pending a technical issue on the Rockot launcher.
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