Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer Spacecraft
SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is an ESA–Chinese Academy of Sciences observatory launched on 19 May 2026 to study how solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic shield using X-ray, ultraviolet, particle, and magnetic-field measurements from a highly elliptical Earth orbit.
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- Family Name
- SMILE
- Full Name
- Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer Spacecraft
- Roles
- observatoryorbiterresearch
- Status
- active
- Type
- spacecraft
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- Description
- SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is an ESA–Chinese Academy of Sciences observatory launched on 19 May 2026 to study how solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic shield using X-ray, ultraviolet, particle, and magnetic-field measurements from a highly elliptical Earth orbit.
- First Flight Year
- 2,026
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 00:50:50 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 03:00:00 UTC