{"id":801053,"date":"2026-03-09T06:19:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801053"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:19:30","slug":"smile-arrives-in-french-guiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801053","title":{"rendered":"Smile arrives in French Guiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Following a two-week journey from the Netherlands, the Maritime Nantaise\u00a0Colibri cargo\u00a0ship\u00a0carrying the\u00a0Smile\u00a0spacecraft docked in Kourou, French Guiana on Thursday 26 February.<\/p>\n<p>Smile was then unloaded, transported to Europe&#8217;s Spaceport, and then unpacked. During the coming weeks, the spacecraft will go through final preparations for its launch on a\u00a0Vega-C\u00a0rocket between 8 April and 7 May.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more<\/p>\n<p><i>Smile (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/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\">&lt;iframe width=&#8221;649&#8243; height=&#8221;360&#8243; src=&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allow=&#8221;encrypted-media&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;<\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2026\/03\/Smile_arrives_in_French_Guiana?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a two-week journey from the Netherlands, the Maritime Nantaise\u00a0Colibri cargo\u00a0ship\u00a0carrying the\u00a0Smile\u00a0spacecraft docked in Kourou, French Guiana on Thursday 26 February. Smile was then unloaded, transported to Europe&#8217;s Spaceport, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801053","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\/801053","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=801053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}