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

ESA's SMOS water mission goes live

21/05/2010 2513 views 1 likes

Dry soil

New global network validates SMOS soil moisture data

14/05/2010 2907 views 2 likes

Fibre optics

Enabling & Support

ESA missions extend fibre optics to orbit

28/04/2010 3556 views 5 likes

Taking in soil moisture measurements

Australian field campaign validates SMOS data

09/03/2010 1341 views 1 likes

Brightness temperature

First images from ESA’s water mission

23/02/2010 2663 views 0 likes

SMOS completes early orbit phase

04/12/2009 801 views 0 likes

Skipper Liz Wardley sets sail

Sailors braving treacherous waters for science

01/12/2009 1284 views 0 likes

First data from SMOS

First SMOS data received

20/11/2009 2019 views 4 likes

SMOS satellite instrument comes alive

19/11/2009 4060 views 6 likes

SMOS

SMOS forms three-pointed star in the sky

03/11/2009 2567 views 1 likes

SMOS and Proba-2 liftoff

Two new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit

02/11/2009 3707 views 2 likes

SMOS and Proba-2 ready for launch

30/10/2009 1191 views 0 likes

SMOS Proba-2 launch tower

Watch the SMOS and Proba-2 launch live

30/10/2009 1157 views 0 likes

Watch on Euronews: Studying the seas

30/10/2009 485 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 1242 views 0 likes

Kimmo Kanto from the Finnish delegation, TEKES

Finnish university and industry celebrate their contributio…

28/10/2009 801 views 0 likes

Upper composite is hoisted to the top of the tower

SMOS and Proba-2 installed in launch tower

27/10/2009 1341 views 0 likes

Guillermo Buenadicha

Enabling & Support

SMOS Payload Operations Engineer: interview with Guillermo …

23/10/2009 909 views 0 likes

Last view of SMOS

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

21/10/2009 2048 views 0 likes

SMOS joining its launch adapter

SMOS satellite joins launch adapter

14/10/2009 1305 views 0 likes

SMOS in orbit

SMOS launch nearing: Media Day at ESA/ESRIN

09/10/2009 1370 views 1 likes

Satellite Operations and Control Centre - CNES

Operations teams ready for SMOS

05/10/2009 1010 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS in Russia

SMOS arrives safely at Russian launch site

18/09/2009 957 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS team gears up for launch campaign

01/09/2009 1282 views 0 likes

SMOS launch adapter

Team views SMOS launcher hardware in Russia

14/08/2009 1093 views 0 likes

The three Elbara instruments

New SMOS validation instruments ready for action

10/07/2009 1243 views 1 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November

22/06/2009 1364 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS ready to ship to launch site

28/05/2009 1633 views 0 likes

Looking forward to launch

Enabling & Support

September launch for ESA's water mission

27/04/2009 1142 views 0 likes

SMOS at Thales Alenia Space

Enabling & Support

ESA's water mission on track for launch

12/02/2009 1765 views 0 likes

The Skyvan aircraft

Successful dress rehearsal for SMOS validation

06/06/2008 1194 views 0 likes

Taking soil samples in the Takla Makan desert

SMOS goes Olympic

02/06/2008 729 views 0 likes

A happy team after a job well done

SMOS opens arms

25/03/2008 973 views 0 likes

SMOS

SMOS: Helping Europe respond to climate change

15/02/2008 991 views 0 likes

SMOS agency and industrial team

SMOS shakes again

10/12/2007 621 views 0 likes

SMOS Workshop

In preparation for data from SMOS

09/11/2007 737 views 0 likes

Enabling & Support

EuroNews looks at SMOS, ESA's water mission

05/10/2007 652 views 0 likes

SMOS

ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference

30/07/2007 1183 views 0 likes

SMOS Cal/Val Workshop

11/07/2007 410 views 0 likes

SMOS meets Proteus

SMOS instrument and platform unite

28/06/2007 1088 views 1 likes

SMOS payload testing

ESA's water mission instrument passes test programme

08/06/2007 1183 views 0 likes

SMOS payload ready for acoustic testing

Noise - no problem for SMOS

27/03/2007 691 views 0 likes

Unloading SMOS payload in ESA-ESTEC

SMOS payload module arrives at ESA-ESTEC for testing

12/03/2007 909 views 1 likes

AMIRAS instrument deployed

First images from airborne version of SMOS

07/12/2006 974 views 0 likes

Earth's water cycle

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

16/11/2006 747 views 0 likes

PROTEUS 'family photo'

SMOS platform ready to meet MIRAS payload

09/10/2006 831 views 0 likes

HUT-2D instrument measuring the Milky Way

First images from Finnish radiometer support SMOS

17/08/2006 1027 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 586 views 0 likes

Proteus platform and joint ESA/CNES/AAS team

SMOS platform takes shape

15/06/2006 1272 views 1 likes

Copenhagen, Denmark

Sixth SMOS Workshop – science community prepares for data

12/06/2006 614 views 0 likes

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