Recent Progress of the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) Mission

WANG Chi; ESCOUBET Philippe; FORSYTH Colin; LI Jing; AGNOLON David

doi:10.11728/cjss2024.04.2024-yg18

Kongjian kexue xuebao (Aug 2024)

Recent Progress of the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) Mission

WANG Chi,
ESCOUBET Philippe,
FORSYTH Colin,
LI Jing,
AGNOLON David

Affiliations

WANG Chi: ["State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190"]
ESCOUBET Philippe: ["European Space Agency/European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk 2201 AZ"]
FORSYTH Colin: ["Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, London RH5 6 NT"]
LI Jing: ["State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190"]
AGNOLON David: ["European Space Agency/European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk 2201 AZ"]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11728/cjss2024.04.2024-yg18
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 44
pp. 692 – 698

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The SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission is a joint space science mission between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA), aiming to understand the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth’s magnetosphere in a global manner. As of May 2024, the SMILE mission is in phase-D with an expected launch date of September 2025. This report summarizes developments in the mission during the past two years.

Published in Kongjian kexue xuebao

ISSN: 0254-6124 (Print)
Publisher: Science Press
Country of publisher: China
LCC subjects: Science: Astronomy
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