I am glad to inform you that yesterday the Program Board for Earth Observation (PB-EO) of ESA voted the SMOS mission extension following the ACEO (Advisory Committee for Earth Observation) review report:“Member states’ delegations were very positive about both the achievements so far as well as the detailed plan being put forward for the extension. “CNES (the French Space Agency also funding the mission exploitation), has already granted funding until 2021 (actually 2019 with extension to 2021 pending PB-EO vote which we now have).So, should everything go nicely with the satellite and platform, we have data guaranteed until 2021!Congratulations and many thanks to all the actors of this success.SMOS is now over 9 year old and still going strong by the way!Yann
