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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 👉 https://t.co/QMI6qivgqr
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 👉 https://t.co/VywldpUSqZ
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.
https://t.co/UVwUODq3Ie
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 👉 https://t.co/LLQOg92gvi