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The SMOS instrument MIRAS is carried on a standard 'spacecraft' bus called Proteus. After launch, when the spacecraft separates from the launcher, there is an automatic start-up sequence - this results in the deployment of two symmetrical solar arrays.

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SMOS orbital path

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SMOS launched on a modified Russian Intercontinental Balistic Missile (ICBM) SS-19 launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

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  Last update: 2 November 2009 
 
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SMOS - ESA's water mission (BR-288)SMOS - la misión del agua de la ESA
(BR-278)SMOS – mission de l'ESA dédiée au cycle de l'eau (BR-278)SMOS factsheet
Special features
SMOS: ESA's water mission
From a technological perspective
Technology leaps let SMOS follow Earth’s water
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Thales Alenia SpaceCNESEADS-CASACESBIO SMOS pageIfremer-Cersat Salinity CenterGerman SMOS Project OfficeSMOS Barcelona Expert CentreSMOS Level 3/4 Processing Centre, SpainInternational Soil Moisture Network
 
 
 
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