{"id":794098,"date":"2025-03-06T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794098"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:55:05","slug":"completing-the-spacecraft-lets-smile-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794098","title":{"rendered":"Completing the spacecraft \u2013 Let\u2019s Smile (episode 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Smile\u00a0is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study space weather and the interaction between the solar wind and Earth\u2019s magnetic environment.<\/p>\n<p>At the European Space Agency\u2019s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have spent the last five months unboxing and testing different elements of the spacecraft, and joining the two main parts together. Due to launch by the end of 2025, Smile is now well on its way to being ready for space.<\/p>\n<p>This video provides a glimpse into what we\u2019ve been up to recently. It is the second episode in a series of short videos, and includes interviews with Adriana Gonz\u00e1lez Castro (ESA Smile Project Controller), Walfried Raab (ESA Smile Lead Payload Engineer), Sylvain Vey (ESA Smile Instrument and Operations Interface Engineer), Li Jing (CAS Smile Project Manager), Benjamin Vanoutryve (Smile AIT\/AIV and Launcher Interface Principal Engineer), and Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Maestra Onteniente (Airbus Smile AIT Manager).<\/p>\n<p>Access the other episodes of \u2018Let\u2019s Smile\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the Smile mission \u2013 Let\u2019s Smile (episode 1)<\/p>\n<p>Smile\u2019s other half arrives \u2013 Let\u2019s Smile (action snippet)<\/p>\n<p><i>Smile (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is a 50\u201350 collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Completing the spacecraft \u2013 Let\u2019s Smile (episode 2)\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqqVfQjw1bY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/03\/Completing_the_spacecraft_Let_s_Smile_episode_2?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smile\u00a0is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study space weather and the interaction between the solar wind and Earth\u2019s magnetic environment. At the European Space Agency\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}