In-orbit testing ng SMILE satellite, isinagawa

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21 segments

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Chinese Academy of Sciences at European

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Space Agency orbiting

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Solar Wind Magnetosphere aphere link

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explorer or smile

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launch centers

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19 China Europe space science

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cooperation

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magnetic field

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magnetometer.

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We want to know how the sun influence

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the earth. Sometime there are big

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eruption on the sun that send this big

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cloud of pass toward the earth and this

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can have a problem on our daily life.

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For instance, GPS can be not accurate.

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Space weather events, a big event can

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also affect power. So we smile and other

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mission. We want to predict this kind of

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event and warn people and monitor our

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electricity line and everything that

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this doesn't happen again.

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The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the European Space Agency are collaborating on the SMILE mission to study the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere, aiming to better predict space weather events that can disrupt GPS and power grids.