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| | | | | | | SMOS valmiina toimintaan
5 marraskuuta 2009
| Carried on the SMOS satellite, the MIRAS instrument consists of a central structure and three deployable arms, each of which has three segments. During launch, these arms are folded-up. Just over 36 hours after SMOS has been injected into orbit, the arms are gently deployed.
Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab | |  |  | |
| | | | Pieni, mutta suuri satelliitti
| Mission Control at the French space agency CNES, in Toulouse, France, received confirmation that the MIRAS antennas had deployed on 3 November 2009.
Credits: CNES | | | | |
| | | | | To measure the moisture in soil and salt in the oceans, SMOS has borrowed techniques used in radio astronomy. The 69 small antennas carried on the instrument's Y-shaped arms and central hub use 'aperture synthesis' or 'interferometry' to mimic a much larger antenna - similar to the way the Very Large Array works in Socorro, New Mexico, US.
Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab | | | | |
| | | | Suomalaista tekniikkaa ja osaamista
| Kimmo Rautiainen, Juha Kainulainen and Tuomo Auer, from the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) on 12 April 2006 when the first image of the Milky Way was acquired with the SMOS-like 2D interferometer, HUT-2D.
Credits: Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) / Juha Juvonen | | | | |
| | | | | Kimmo Kanto from the Finnish delegation, TEKES, opened the SMOS event on 21 October 2009 at the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Credits: Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) / Juha Juvonen | | | | |
| | | | | The Skyvan aircraft, which was used during the SMOS rehearsal validation campaign in 2008. It is operated by the University of Helsinki, Finalnd and has been used several times in the last three years to support the development of SMOS.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
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| | Aiheeseen liittyviä linkkejä SMOS technical site Launch diary SMOS launchAiheeseen liittyviä suomalaisia tahoja Teknillinen korkeakouluDA-Design Oy - AvaruusModulight, Inc.
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