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 payload testing

ESA's water mission instrument passes test programme

08/06/2007 1216 views 0 likes

SMOS payload ready for acoustic testing

Noise - no problem for SMOS

27/03/2007 735 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS payload in ESA-ESTEC

SMOS payload module arrives at ESA-ESTEC for testing

12/03/2007 927 views 1 likes

AMIRAS instrument deployed

First images from airborne version of SMOS

07/12/2006 1016 views 0 likes

Earth's water cycle

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

16/11/2006 788 views 0 likes

PROTEUS 'family photo'

SMOS platform ready to meet MIRAS payload

09/10/2006 864 views 0 likes

HUT-2D instrument measuring the Milky Way

First images from Finnish radiometer support SMOS

17/08/2006 1047 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 598 views 0 likes

Proteus platform and joint ESA/CNES/AAS team

SMOS platform takes shape

15/06/2006 1367 views 1 likes

Copenhagen, Denmark

Sixth SMOS Workshop – science community prepares for data

12/06/2006 632 views 0 likes

ESA SMOS Project Manager Achim Hahne holding a LICEF

Last batch of LICEF receivers delivered for SMOS

24/04/2006 1826 views 0 likes

SMOS science team members enjoying the products of Valencia

SMOS and the art of wine making

10/04/2006 693 views 0 likes

MIRAS demonstrator back view showing electronics

Airborne version of SMOS instrument takes shape

31/01/2006 944 views 0 likes

SMOS Payload Critical Design Review (CDR) Board

SMOS instrument passes Critical Design Review

15/12/2005 1359 views 0 likes

The SMOS Validation and Retrieval Team

Preparing for data from SMOS

05/12/2005 755 views 0 likes

DTU-ESA dry run

SMOS antenna testing – dry run completed

14/10/2005 967 views 0 likes

Installation of the radiometer's two large antenna horns

Dedicated SMOS campaign activities down under

05/10/2005 979 views 0 likes

The reduced SMOS payload in the Large Space Simulator

SMOS payload in the sunshine

06/09/2005 1101 views 0 likes

Antarctica

Antarctic DOMEX experiment contributes to SMOS mission prep…

24/08/2005 1844 views 0 likes

SMOS Payload Module on the Vibration Table at ESA-ESTEC

Shake and bake for SMOS

09/06/2005 1609 views 0 likes

Rockot in its Launch Container with Stationary Mast ready for launch

A boost for SMOS

07/12/2004 943 views 0 likes

SMOS

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

17/06/2004 1699 views 1 likes

SMOS (artist's impression)

SMOS approved to move into next phase of development

08/10/2003 1186 views 0 likes

Porto, Portugal

4th SMOS Workshop

02/04/2003 538 views 0 likes

SMOS artist's impression

A better understanding of climate comes one step closer as …

04/02/2003 541 views 0 likes

The oil rig platform used during the WISE campaign

SMOS Workshop in Toulouse

17/12/2002 749 views 0 likes

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

16/07/2002 1019 views 3 likes

Soil moisture measurements made concurrently with the overflights.

STARRS flying over Europe

19/11/2001 1370 views 2 likes

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