Guardian: The launch of Europe’s gravity mapping satellite, Gravity and Ocean Circulation Explorer, has been delayed. Controllers at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkangel in north-west Russia suspended its countdown only seven seconds away from blast off on a SS-19 ex-Soviet missile at 1421 GMT today. The European Space Agency said launch controllers had suspended the countdown when the tower protecting its SS-19 launcher failed to move clear to allow blast-off. Russian space engineers are now …