HTTP:: Success SMOS Launches to Earth 039 s Orbit
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At around 04:50 local time (0150 GMT) this morning, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS), part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Living Planet Program, roared into the sky aboard a modified Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) SS-19. The Rockot delivery system took off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a Russian spaceport located about 800 kilometers North of Moscow, and some 200 kilometers South of the city of Arkhangelsk. The flight went according to plan, and the satellite is now in the process of being inserted on its designated orbit. “We had a very beautiful launch. This is not just a satellite; this is a very important event. This is the second of our Earth Explorers and with that we confirm that ESA is the space agency of the world making the best efforts for Earth science and a new understanding of climate change,†ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain told the BBC News. The first stage of the mission, the official says, is sc!
heduled to last for about three years. About 70 minutes after the Rockot delivery system blasted off from the Plesetsk launch facility, the controllers at the Hartebeesthoek ground station, near Johannesburg, in South Africa, confirmed that they had picked up telemetry coming in from SMOS. All the science instruments on the spacecraft...
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