The SMOS remote sensing mission was launched on the 2. of  November in 2009 is part of the opportunity missions of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer programme. The project office role is to inform the scientific community and the public about the current mission status as well as to promote the use of the SMOS data products within Germany. The Institute of Oceanography (IfM) of the University of Hamburg is supporting the mission by participating in calibration and validation studies for the SMOS instrument. Furthermore the project office organised a series of workshops to develop user concepts for the SMOS data in cooperation with participating scientists.

The project office is located in the IfM and is funded by the German ministry of economy and technology (BMWI ) via the German aerospace agency DLR (50 EE 05 06).

SMOS Launch on the 2 of November in 2009 - Launchvideo