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Europe's latest Earth observation satellite has returned its first data.
Smos was launched earlier this month on a quest to help scientists understand better how water is cycled around the Earth.
The spacecraft will make the first global maps of the amount of moisture held in soils and of the quantity of salts dissolved in the oceans.

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SMOS satellite instrument comes alive
The MIRAS instrument on ESA's SMOS satellite, launched earlier this month, has been switched on and is operating normally. MIRAS will map soil moisture and ocean salinity to improve our understanding of the role these two key variables play in regulating Earths water cycle.

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TLE Data
SMOS
1 36036U 09059A   09306.82816069 -.00000044 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 00067
2 36036 098.4519 132.2278 0001605 323.0569 037.0285 14.39600065000112


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The Smos spacecraft launched on Monday to study the Earth's water cycle has passed a key mission milestone.
The European Space Agency (Esa) satellite has successfully unpacked the three-armed antenna it will use to acquire its data.

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The European Space Agency has successfully launched its Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite to track the world's water.
The probe will measure the moisture in soil, allowing climate scientists and weather forecasters to better predict droughts and floods. The mission will also measure the salt content of the oceans.

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Rockot Launch / SMOS/ Proba-2
SMPS PROBA-2 Rokot Launch
Launch of ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 Satellites



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The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) satellite was launched on Monday, 2 November 2009 at 02:50 Central European Time (CET) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 800 kilometres north of Moscow. The satellite is beginning a unique mission: the large-area mapping of soil moisture and ocean salinity. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has already initiated a number of research projects in order to evaluate the environmental data.

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The ground station in Redu, Belgium, has received a signal from Proba-2, confirming the satellite has separated from the launcher upper stage and is in orbit.

04:15 CET - The ground station in Hertebeesthoek, South Africa, has received a signal from SMOS, confirming the satellite has separated from the launcher upper stage and is in orbit. Breeze-KM continues to carry Proba-2 into orbit.

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Following launch service agreements for the CryoSat and GOCE Earth Explorer satellites, the European Space Agency (ESA) selected Eurockot to provide the launch services for the SMOS satellite which is another Earth Explorer Mission within ESA's Living Planet Program. SMOS is presently scheduled to be launched in September 2009 using the Rockot launch vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia.
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SMOS: Helping Europe respond to climate change
ESA SMOS Mission Backgrounder



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