SMOS

 2009-059A

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ESA Earth Explorer 3, SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) is a Proteus-bus (Spacebus-L500) craft with a dual polarization 2-D interferometric L-band radiometer. 1m Box + 2 panels + 3 booms; each boom is 4m long.

Mass 683 kg. Thales Alenia Space/Cannes.

Mass 658 kg inc 28 kg fuel. Size 2.4m high 2.3m dia

SMOS
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2009 Nov 2	0150:51	Launch by Rokot
		T+2:16 69 km St 1 sep	-5910 x 168
		T+2:59 Fairing sep 119 km	-5731 x 192
		T+5:19 St 2 sep 253 km	-4153 x 345
		T+5:20 Briz-KM burn 1 9:59
	0206:11	T+15:20 KM MECO-1	153 x 888 x 99.48
		T+1:02:50 KM MES-2 70s
	0254:51	T+1:04:00 KM MECO-2	749 x 768 x 98.44
	0300:58	T+1:10:07 SMOS sep
		T+1:23:20 KM Vernier DKI-1 17s
		T+1:23:37 DKI cutoff	723 x 763 x 98.37
		T+2:06:55 KM DKI-2 17s
		T+2:07:12 DKI cutoff	725 x 725 x 98.30
	0407:31	T+2:16:40 PS (adapter section) separation
	0450:20	T+2:59:29 Proba-2 sep
		T+3:20:20 KM sep burn 100s
	0512	T+3:22:00 KM cutoff	500? x 725
2009 Nov 3			100.03 758 x 760 x 98.5
2009 Nov 19			100.02 758 x 759 x 98.44

Payload:

• MIRAS Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis