BackForward Satellite: SMILE 

Satellite details
Acronym SMILE
Full name Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer
WIGOS Station Identifier ---
Satellite Description
  • Single satellite of SMILE programme
  • Main mission is space weather
  • Its orbit is 121,000 km from Earth above the North Pole far enough from Earth to allow SMILE to image the edge of Earth’s magnetic field.
Mass at launch 2300 kg Dry mass
Power
Data access link no link provided
Data access information
  • Smile will send down its science data mainly to the O'Higgins Antarctic ground station operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and the Sanya ground-station in China
Orbit Cross-magnetosphere orbit Altitude 121000 km

 

Space agency ESA , CAS
Status Planned
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch ≥2026 EOL ≥2029
Last update: 2025-11-24
Associated satellite programme and related satellites

Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational , blue tag : future

Satellite Payload

All known Instruments flying on SMILE

Acronym Full name
LIA Light Ion Analyser
MAG Smile's magnetometer
SXI Soft X-ray imager
UVI Ultraviolet Aurora Imager
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