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Rokot / Briz-KM | GRACE

GRACE

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 17 Mar 2002, 09:21 am UTC

Rocket: Rokot/Briz-KM (Rokot)

Provider: Eurockot Launch Services

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Mission Description

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) was a joint mission of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Twin satellites took detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field anomalies from its launch in March 2002 to the end of its science mission in October 2017.