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 in orbit

SMOS launch nearing: Media Day at ESA/ESRIN

09/10/2009 1424 views 1 likes

Satellite Operations and Control Centre - CNES

Operations teams ready for SMOS

05/10/2009 1087 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS in Russia

SMOS arrives safely at Russian launch site

18/09/2009 1018 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS team gears up for launch campaign

01/09/2009 1386 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 1308 views 1 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November

22/06/2009 1465 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS ready to ship to launch site

28/05/2009 1741 views 0 likes

Looking forward to launch

Enabling & Support

September launch for ESA's water mission

27/04/2009 1203 views 0 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

ESA's water mission on track for launch

12/02/2009 1861 views 0 likes

The Skyvan aircraft

Successful dress rehearsal for SMOS validation

06/06/2008 1294 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 1066 views 1 likes

SMOS

SMOS: Helping Europe respond to climate change

15/02/2008 1061 views 0 likes

SMOS agency and industrial team

SMOS shakes again

10/12/2007 657 views 0 likes

SMOS Workshop

In preparation for data from SMOS

09/11/2007 783 views 0 likes

Enabling & Support

EuroNews looks at SMOS, ESA's water mission

05/10/2007 692 views 0 likes

SMOS

ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference

30/07/2007 1254 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 1224 views 1 likes

SMOS payload testing

ESA's water mission instrument passes test programme

08/06/2007 1249 views 0 likes

SMOS payload ready for acoustic testing

Noise - no problem for SMOS

27/03/2007 782 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS payload in ESA-ESTEC

SMOS payload module arrives at ESA-ESTEC for testing

12/03/2007 953 views 1 likes

AMIRAS instrument deployed

First images from airborne version of SMOS

07/12/2006 1039 views 0 likes

Earth's water cycle

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

16/11/2006 815 views 0 likes

PROTEUS 'family photo'

SMOS platform ready to meet MIRAS payload

09/10/2006 906 views 0 likes

HUT-2D instrument measuring the Milky Way

First images from Finnish radiometer support SMOS

17/08/2006 1071 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 627 views 0 likes

Proteus platform and joint ESA/CNES/AAS team

SMOS platform takes shape

15/06/2006 1618 views 1 likes

Copenhagen, Denmark

Sixth SMOS Workshop – science community prepares for data

12/06/2006 652 views 0 likes

ESA SMOS Project Manager Achim Hahne holding a LICEF

Last batch of LICEF receivers delivered for SMOS

24/04/2006 1859 views 0 likes

SMOS science team members enjoying the products of Valencia

SMOS and the art of wine making

10/04/2006 715 views 0 likes

MIRAS demonstrator back view showing electronics

Airborne version of SMOS instrument takes shape

31/01/2006 975 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 1169 views 0 likes

Antarctica

Antarctic DOMEX experiment contributes to SMOS mission prep…

24/08/2005 1910 views 0 likes

SMOS Payload Module on the Vibration Table at ESA-ESTEC

Shake and bake for SMOS

09/06/2005 1645 views 0 likes

Rockot in its Launch Container with Stationary Mast ready for launch

A boost for SMOS

07/12/2004 986 views 0 likes

SMOS

ESA and EADS-CASA sign contract to build instrument for the…

17/06/2004 1745 views 1 likes

SMOS (artist's impression)

SMOS approved to move into next phase of development

08/10/2003 1229 views 0 likes

Porto, Portugal

4th SMOS Workshop

02/04/2003 564 views 0 likes

SMOS artist's impression

A better understanding of climate comes one step closer as …

04/02/2003 561 views 0 likes

The oil rig platform used during the WISE campaign

SMOS Workshop in Toulouse

17/12/2002 769 views 0 likes

SMOS End-to-End Performance Simulator (SEPS) now available

16/07/2002 1057 views 3 likes

Soil moisture measurements made concurrently with the overflights.

STARRS flying over Europe

19/11/2001 1399 views 2 likes

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