Since 2010 at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Latvia, the work on project “EUPOS contribution to GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission” (Id: 4307) which was approved by European Space Agency in 2008 is progressing. One of the ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes is: The Living Planet. The paper gives an overview of the GOCE mission, its status on March 2011; as well as describes the GOCE’s three main instruments, the GOCE data access and the processing which has been carried out at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation.