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Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana

Vega-C: launching Smile into space

Smile launch timeline

Smile's scientific legacy

Smile's ultraviolet vision

Smile's X-ray vision

Smile's science toolbox

Smile: A global answer to a global question

Top three mysteries Smile will solve

The Sun's threat to Earth

Smile in numbers

NGC 1637 (Hubble WFC3 and Webb NIRCam images)

Smile deploys its magnetometer boom (artist impression, GIF)

Smile fires its boosters (artist impression, GIF)

Smile deploys its solar panels (artist impression, GIF)

Smile delivered to space (artist impression, GIF)

Smile lifts off into space (artist impression, GIF)

Moon facts: gravity, far side and temperature

Moon facts: age and composition

Moon facts: size and distance

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 1. Moonwalkers

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 2. Spacecraft

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 3. Travel time

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 4. Communications

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 5. Moon drift

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 7. Water

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 8. Atmosphere

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 9. Resources

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 10. Flashes

Proba-2's view from Earth orbit of an annular solar eclipse

Ten things you did not know about the Moon: 6. Moon dust

The stellar lifecycle in a nearby spiral

Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France

Smile team poses in front of the spacecraft container

View of Smile in the Maritime Nantaise’s Colibri ship

Smile is loaded into a ship at the Port of Amsterdam

Smile arrives at the Port of Amsterdam by truck

Smile’s ride to French Guiana

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during one of her first workouts at the start of the εpsilon mission.

The Gateway concept

Uranus (January 2025)

Uranus collage (January 2025, annotated)

NASA Dynamics Explorer images the northern lights

Galaxy field of low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2

Dark galaxy CDG-2 near Perseus Cluster (annotated)

ROSAT X-ray image of sky

ROSAT X-ray image of sky, with the X-rays from Earth’s magnetosphere present (left) and removed (right)

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