Smile Archive
Imaging Earth’s magnetic environment
The mission
Smile will use four science instruments to study how Earth responds to the solar wind from the Sun. This will improve our understanding of solar storms, geomagnetic storms and the science of space weather.
The launch
- Launch window: 8 April – 7 May 2026
- Launch location: Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana
- Launch vehicle: Vega-C
- Destination: highly elliptical orbit around Earth
- 4 instruments
- 121 000 km above North Pole
- 3 year lifetime
- >250 scientists
