SMILE - Imaging Earth's invisible shield

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📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel and stay updated with our latest analysis and interviews:👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg 👈 The groundbreaking SMILE satellite launched on May 19 and Razor's Neil Cairns talks to the co-principal investigator, Dr. Colin Forsyth, at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Nestled in the Surrey countryside, MSSL is a world leader in space research. Dr. Forsyth explains the mission's remarkable ambition: to observe the boundary at which Earth's magnetosphere deflects the charged particles of the solar wind, a natural shield that protects all life on our planet. SMILE is a rare joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The work load was split 50-50 with China providing the spacecraft bus – the fuel tanks, the solar panels and the main body of the spacecraft. Europe is providing the payload platform – the module which all of the instruments plug into, and that interfaces with the s

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