SMAP Mission

Objectives and Applications

3-year nominal mission life. Global soil moisture and freeze-thaw state mapping.

Mission Summary

Full Name
Soil Moisture Active Passive
Mission Status
Operational (extended)
Mission Agencies
NASA, CSA
Launch Date
31 Jan 2015
Mission Links
mission site | data access portal
EOL Date
Sep 2026
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
98.46 minutes
Orbit Sense
Ascending
Orbit Inclination
98.12 deg
Orbit Altitude
685 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
18:00
Repeat Cycle
8 days
NORAD Catalog #
40376 (TLE)
International Designator
2015-003A

Mission Instruments

L-band Radar (SMAP) - L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SMAP)
L-band Radiometer (SMAP) - L-band Radiometer (SMAP)

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
LandSoil moisture L-band Radar (SMAP), L-band Radiometer (SMAP)

OpenSearch Datasets

Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 123 )
ABoVE: Active Layer Thickness from Remote Sensing Permafrost Model, Alaska, 2001-2015
JPL SMAP Level 2B CAP Sea Surface Salinity V5.0 Validated Dataset
JPL SMAP Level 2B Near Real-time CAP Sea Surface Salinity V5.0 Validated Dataset
JPL SMAP Level 2B Near Real-time CAP Sea Surface Salinity V5.0 Validated Dataset (2 hour latency)
JPL SMAP Level 3 CAP Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image 8-Day Running Mean V5.0 Validated Da ...
JPL SMAP Level 3 CAP Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image Monthly V5.0 Validated Dataset
Multi-Mission Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Salinity Global Dataset V1
Multi-Mission Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Salinity Global Dataset V2
Multi-Mission Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Salinity Global Monthly Dataset V1
Multi-Mission Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Salinity Global Monthly Dataset V2
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 9 results: browser , table )
ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): Weekly sea surface sa...
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): COMBINED Product, Version 05.3
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): PASSIVE Product, Version 05.3
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): PASSIVE Product, Version 05.2
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): PASSIVE product, Version 06.1
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): COMBINED Product, Version 05.2
ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): Monthly sea surface s...
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): COMBINED product, Version 06.1
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Experimental Break-Adjusted COMBINE...
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