ESA_Smile

Our Smile mission has made it through a tough set of tests: ✅Spikes ✅Scales ✅Shaker ✅Solar array stretch ✅Space Simulator All covered in the latest episode of 'Let's Smile', giving you a peek behind the scenes at ESA's technical heart, ESTEC. Full video and photos 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…

Smile's other half arrives 🫶 🛬 On 9 December, the @esa_smile Platform arrived at @Schiphol airport from Shanghai, China. It was then transported to ESTEC in Noordwijk, where the other half, the European Payload Module, was waiting for it 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

☀️💨🛰️🌍 Meet our Smile mission! 👇 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… 🎥ESA/Lightcurve Films

The Smile Science Working Team met in Iceland and online last week. 🤝💻 🟩🟥 Wonderful auroras were observed locally at the China-Iceland Joint Arctic Observatory, underlining the importance of the Smile mission science objectives and the links between Europe and China. The Smile data will indeed provide a unique global view over the northern hemisphere of the impact of such strong solar activity!

Hello, Smile! 👋 🌞↔️🌍 Enjoy this view of the spacecraft that will observe the full Sun-Earth connection, filling an essential gap in our understanding of the Solar System. youtube.com/watch?v=jiTfxA…

Discover the new Smile ESA website! esa.int/Science_Explor…

Vega-C to launch the ESA Smile mission! esa.int/Science_Explor…

ESA ensures a ride into space for its @ESA_Smile mission, with @Arianespace signing up to launch the spacecraft on a Vega-C rocket 🚀 Find out more 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…