Payload
SMOS
OperationalPayloadLEO
SMOS is a Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/European Space Agency (ESA) payload satellite, launched on November 2, 2009 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 2, 2009 at 01:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Rokot/Briz-KM →
- Operator
- Eurockot Launch Services
- Mission
- SMOS
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 760 km
- Periapsis
- 758 km
- Inclination
- 98.44°
- Orbital period
- 100.02 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/European Space Agency (ESA)
- Manufacturer
- Thales Alenia Space
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 658 kg
- Dry mass
- 630 kg
- Power
- 1,065 W
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 36036
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 2.8692 m²
- Status
- Operational