Soil Moisture Active Passive

NASA environmental monitoring satellite
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Soil Moisture Active Passive

Summary

Soil Moisture Active Passive is an Earth observation satellite[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of earth_observation_satellite entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (35 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's image is recorded as SMAP spacecraft model.png[3].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's instance of is recorded as Earth observation satellite[4].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's operator is recorded as Jet Propulsion Laboratory[5].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's manufacturer is recorded as Jet Propulsion Laboratory[6].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's COSPAR ID is recorded as 2015-003A[7].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's Commons category is recorded as Soil Moisture Active Passive[8].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's space launch vehicle is recorded as Delta II[9].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's SCN is recorded as 40376[10].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's parent astronomical body is recorded as Earth[11].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's country of origin is recorded as United States[12].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's powered by is recorded as spacecraft solar array[13].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's type of orbit is recorded as Sun-synchronous orbit[14].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's UTC date of spacecraft launch is recorded as +2015-01-31T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04zw_lc[16].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's significant event is recorded as rocket launch[17].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's official website is recorded as https://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/[18].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's spoken text audio is recorded as Soil Moisture Active and Passive mission wikipedia fr audio.ogg[19].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's launch contractor is recorded as United Launch Alliance[20].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0001611'}[21].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's start point is recorded as Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2 West[22].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+98.1306'}[23].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11570', 'amount': '+944'}[24].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's capital cost is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+916000000'}[25].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+98.4'}[26].
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+7060.26'}[27].

Why It Matters

Soil Moisture Active Passive ranks in the top 7% of earth_observation_satellite entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (35 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . heavens-above.com. Retrieved . heavens-above.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . heavens-above.com. Retrieved . heavens-above.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . heavens-above.com. Retrieved . heavens-above.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . heavens-above.com. Retrieved . heavens-above.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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