The European Space Agency’s (ESA) For more information, please contact: science programme committee has approved the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (Smile) mission joint venture with China. The aim is to understand interactions between particles in solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic shield. The three-year Smile mission is set for launch on a European rocket in 2023 after which it will enter an Earth orbit and send data to ESA and Chinese Academy of Sciences ground stations. ESA’s Science Programme Committee voted today at its meeting in Brussels to approve the project jointly developed by China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation (CASC) and CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spati@@
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) science programme committee has approved the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (Smile) mission joint venture with China. The aim is to understand interactions between particles in solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic shield. The three-year Smile mission is set for launch on a European rocket in 2023 after which it will enter an Earth orbit and send data to ESA and Chinese Academy of Sciences ground stations. ESA’s Science Programme Committee voted today at its meeting in Brussels to approve the project jointly developed by China Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation (CASC) and CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spati@@