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New launch date for satellite carrying Leicester-built telescope studying Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’

Summary by Space-park.co.uk
The new launch date for a satellite that carries a University of Leicester-built instrument to study the ‘magnetic shield’ that protects us from our Sun’s radiation is only a week away. The Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is planning to study how the solar wind, a high energy particle stream from our sun, interacts with the earth’s magnetic environment. Among the range of instruments on board is the Soft X-ray Imager (S…
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space-park.co.uk broke the news on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
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