Rokot/Briz-KM launched ESA's SMOS satellite from Plesetsk to measure soil moisture and ocean salinity for climate and water-cycle research, riding alongside the secondary Proba-2 technology-demonstration satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 788 kg
- Flight
- 12th
- of 31 Rokot/Briz-KM flights
- Date and time
- 2 November 2009, 01:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Rokot/Briz-KM
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2009-059
- Launches in 2009
- 62nd of 78
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