ESA - SMOS - Archive

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The mission

ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is dedicated to making global observations of soil moisture over land and salinity over oceans. By consistently mapping these two important components in the water cycle, SMOS is advancing our understanding of the exchange processes between Earth’s surface and atmosphere and is helping to improve weather and climate models.

The launch

Date: 2 November 2009
Site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Launcher: Rockot

758 km mean altitude
69 antenna receivers
10+ years in orbit

SMOS

SMOS and Proba-2 liftoff

Two new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit

02/11/2009 3998 views 2 likes

SMOS and Proba-2 ready for launch

30/10/2009 1283 views 0 likes

SMOS Proba-2 launch tower

Watch the SMOS and Proba-2 launch live

30/10/2009 1225 views 0 likes

Watch on Euronews: Studying the seas

30/10/2009 523 views 0 likes

SMOS Proba-2 upper composite in launch tower

Follow the launch of ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

28/10/2009 1350 views 0 likes

Kimmo Kanto from the Finnish delegation, TEKES

Finnish university and industry celebrate their contributio…

28/10/2009 846 views 0 likes

Upper composite is hoisted to the top of the tower

SMOS and Proba-2 installed in launch tower

27/10/2009 1438 views 0 likes

Guillermo Buenadicha

Enabling & Support

SMOS Payload Operations Engineer: interview with Guillermo …

23/10/2009 951 views 0 likes

Last view of SMOS

Final look at ESA’s SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

21/10/2009 2196 views 0 likes

SMOS joining its launch adapter

SMOS satellite joins launch adapter

14/10/2009 1386 views 0 likes

SMOS in orbit

SMOS launch nearing: Media Day at ESA/ESRIN

09/10/2009 1423 views 1 likes

Satellite Operations and Control Centre - CNES

Operations teams ready for SMOS

05/10/2009 1084 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS in Russia

SMOS arrives safely at Russian launch site

18/09/2009 1017 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS team gears up for launch campaign

01/09/2009 1384 views 0 likes

SMOS launch adapter

Team views SMOS launcher hardware in Russia

14/08/2009 1154 views 0 likes

The three Elbara instruments

New SMOS validation instruments ready for action

10/07/2009 1305 views 1 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November

22/06/2009 1464 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS ready to ship to launch site

28/05/2009 1738 views 0 likes

Looking forward to launch

Enabling & Support

September launch for ESA's water mission

27/04/2009 1202 views 0 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

ESA's water mission on track for launch

12/02/2009 1859 views 0 likes

The Skyvan aircraft

Successful dress rehearsal for SMOS validation

06/06/2008 1291 views 0 likes

Taking soil samples in the Takla Makan desert

SMOS goes Olympic

02/06/2008 781 views 0 likes

A happy team after a job well done

SMOS opens arms

25/03/2008 1058 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS: Helping Europe respond to climate change

15/02/2008 1059 views 0 likes

SMOS agency and industrial team

SMOS shakes again

10/12/2007 655 views 0 likes

SMOS Workshop

In preparation for data from SMOS

09/11/2007 782 views 0 likes

Enabling & Support

EuroNews looks at SMOS, ESA's water mission

05/10/2007 691 views 0 likes

SMOS

ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference

30/07/2007 1253 views 0 likes

SMOS Cal/Val Workshop

11/07/2007 448 views 0 likes

SMOS meets Proteus

SMOS instrument and platform unite

28/06/2007 1220 views 1 likes

SMOS payload testing

ESA's water mission instrument passes test programme

08/06/2007 1247 views 0 likes

SMOS payload ready for acoustic testing

Noise - no problem for SMOS

27/03/2007 781 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS payload in ESA-ESTEC

SMOS payload module arrives at ESA-ESTEC for testing

12/03/2007 952 views 1 likes

AMIRAS instrument deployed

First images from airborne version of SMOS

07/12/2006 1037 views 0 likes

Earth's water cycle

The link between moisture in the soil and salt in the ocean…

16/11/2006 814 views 0 likes

PROTEUS 'family photo'

SMOS platform ready to meet MIRAS payload

09/10/2006 903 views 0 likes

HUT-2D instrument measuring the Milky Way

First images from Finnish radiometer support SMOS

17/08/2006 1070 views 0 likes

ICD signatories: A. Seidler (Eurockot) T.Voiron (CNES) H.Barre (ESA) A.Seregyn (Khrunichev)

SMOS and Eurockot tighten interfaces

27/06/2006 625 views 0 likes

Proteus platform and joint ESA/CNES/AAS team

SMOS platform takes shape

15/06/2006 1612 views 1 likes

Copenhagen, Denmark

Sixth SMOS Workshop – science community prepares for data

12/06/2006 651 views 0 likes

ESA SMOS Project Manager Achim Hahne holding a LICEF

Last batch of LICEF receivers delivered for SMOS

24/04/2006 1857 views 0 likes

SMOS science team members enjoying the products of Valencia

SMOS and the art of wine making

10/04/2006 713 views 0 likes

MIRAS demonstrator back view showing electronics

Airborne version of SMOS instrument takes shape

31/01/2006 974 views 0 likes

SMOS Payload Critical Design Review (CDR) Board

SMOS instrument passes Critical Design Review

15/12/2005 1405 views 0 likes

The SMOS Validation and Retrieval Team

Preparing for data from SMOS

05/12/2005 778 views 0 likes

DTU-ESA dry run

SMOS antenna testing – dry run completed

14/10/2005 1003 views 0 likes

Installation of the radiometer's two large antenna horns

Dedicated SMOS campaign activities down under

05/10/2005 1001 views 0 likes

The reduced SMOS payload in the Large Space Simulator

SMOS payload in the sunshine

06/09/2005 1168 views 0 likes

Antarctica

Antarctic DOMEX experiment contributes to SMOS mission prep…

24/08/2005 1908 views 0 likes

SMOS Payload Module on the Vibration Table at ESA-ESTEC

Shake and bake for SMOS

09/06/2005 1643 views 0 likes

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