ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 Satellites Launched29/10/2009 |
| The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Proba-2 (PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy) satellites are scheduled for launch on Monday 2 November at 02:50 CET on a Russian Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. |
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The main launch event for SMOS and Proba-2 will be held at ESA's ESRIN establishment in Frascati, Italy. ESA senior management and programme specialists will be on hand to provide explanations and interviews.
Live TV transmission of the launch will provide quality pictures to broadcasters from Plesetsk and from mission control rooms at CNES/Toulouse in France and at ESA's Redu ground station in Belgium (for further details, see http://television.esa.int ).
The media (and the general public) can also follow a web-streamed video transmission at: http://www.esa.int/smos or http://www.esa.int/proba .
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