Mission record
SMART-1
Also known as Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology 1, SMART1
ESA · Launched
Explore trajectoryCompleted · Success
The first European mission to the Moon, and a demonstration of solar-electric ion propulsion on a journey that spiralled outward from Earth orbit.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 5
- Launch site
- Kourou, French Guiana
- Countries
- Sweden
- Mission types
- Orbiter, Technology demonstrator
Chronology
Mission timeline
Launch
SMART-1 launched on an Ariane 5 from Kourou
Mission architecture
Vehicles
SMART-1 · Orbiter
Destinations: Moon
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- SMART-1: Physically reconstructed based on publicly available data · ESA STOC Earth-escape and lunar-orbit SPKs · Moon-relative J2000 · ends at last documented signal · September 27, 2003 to September 3, 2006
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 14, 2026
- SMART-1 - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- SMART-1 factsheet - European Space Agency — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- SMART-1 - ESA Science & Technology — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- SMART-1 original structural coordinates — ESAArchive · Supports: mission claims
- SMART-1 spacecraft and solar-array frame definitions, revision12 — ESATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- SMART-1 final operational kernel selection, 20 April 2020 — ESAArchive · Supports: mission claims
- SMART-1 final signal and impact chronology — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- SMART-1 miniaturised hardware and deployed/stowed photographs — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- SMART-1 DCIXS archive mission history and electric-propulsion description — ESAArchive · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- ESA Bulletin 116, November 2003, SMART-1 report, printed page 82 — ESATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- ESA SMART-1 original launch and early flight reports — ESATechnical document · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- DE421 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFTechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- DE440 lunar mean-Earth and principal-axes frame specification — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- IAU rotational elements and body radii (PCK 00011) — NAIFSpice · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA global lunar height maps, LDEM_4 V3 original PDS source label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- LOLA 2023 south-polar elevation, uncertainty and effective-resolution maps — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above: LROC site and terrain context — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- Moon Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- SLDEM2015 Blue Ghost region: original PDS elevation-grid label — NASATechnical document · Supports: destination/body context
- JPL Solar System Dynamics Astrodynamic Parameters — JPLOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context