{"id":55536,"date":"2015-02-03T01:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=soil-moisture-satellite-launched"},"modified":"2015-02-03T01:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T06:59:16","slug":"soil-moisture-satellite-launched","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=soil-moisture-satellite-launched","title":{"rendered":"Soil moisture satellite launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to collect global observations of the vital soil moisture hidden just beneath our feet.The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory, a mission with broad applications for science and society, lifted off at 6:22 a.m. PST (9:22 a.m. EST) Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. NASA&#039;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages SMAP for NASA&#039;s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, with instrument hardware and science contributions made by NASA&#039;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.About 57 minutes after liftoff, SMAP separated from the rocket&#039;s second stage into an initial 411- by 425-mile (661- by 685-kilometer) orbit. After a series of activation procedures, the spacecraft established communications with ground controllers and deployed its solar array. Initial telemetry shows the spacecraft is in excellent health.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/EnvironmentalNewsNetwork\/~4\/8Dq0JL1WgGI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-55536","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Soil moisture satellite launched - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to collect global observations of the vital soil moisture hidden just beneath our feet.The\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=soil-moisture-satellite-launched\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Soil moisture satellite launched - 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