CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
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Full Name
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Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission)
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Status
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Operational (extended)
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Mission Agencies
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ESA , CDTI , CNES
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Launch Date
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02 Nov 2009
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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Dec 2025
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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36036 (TLE)
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International Designator
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2009-059A
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Orbit Type
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Sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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100.075 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Ascending
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Orbit Inclination
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98.44 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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758 km
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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6:00
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Repeat Cycle
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23 days
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Objectives and Applications
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SMOS provides global observations of two crucial variables for modelling the weather and climate, soil moisture and ocean salinity. It will also monitor the vegetation water content, snow cover and ice structure.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 20  )
ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): Monthly sea surface s ...
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 05.2
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 ...
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
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
Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 32 results: browser , table )
SMOS Soil Freeze and Thaw State
SMOS L3 Daily Wind Speed
SMOS Tropical Cyclone Wind Radii Fixes
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): COMBINED product, Version 06.1
ESA Sea Surface Salinity Climate Change Initiative (Sea_Surface_Salinity_cci): Monthly sea surface s...
ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Experimental Break-Adjusted COMBINE...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, numerical Weather prediction, climato...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, numerical Weather prediction, climato...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, numerical Weather prediction, climato...
CLIMATE APPLICATIONS: Water cycle, energy cycle, carbon cycle, numerical Weather prediction, climato...
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