What's New

2014/07/24
The new version of SMILES observation data is made accesible to the public. (Data browse)
2013/07/26
A SMILES Technical article is published in the SPIE Newsroom. (View the article)
2012/03/05
The SMILES Level 2 Research product is released to collaborative researchers. (Information on registration and downloading the data)
2012/03/05
The SMILES observation data is opened to public. (Press Release)
(Data browse)
2011/1/19
The observation phase of SMILES terminated. The conclusion of the failure investigation about submillimeter-wave local oscillator was reported. (more)
2010/5/12
The cause of the discontinuance of the SMILES observation at 08:59:55 of 21th April 2010 (UT) was identified as a failure of submillimeter-wave local oscillator. (more)
2010/4/23 (JST)
The observation of SMILES is discontinued from 08:59:55 of 21th April 2010 (UT) because one of components in submillimeter-wave receiver turned to the stand-by mode.
2009/11/06 (JST)
In the initial checkout, no anomaly of instruments has been observed and it was confirmed that target performance is almost satisfied successfully. Then, it moved to the nominal operation today. SMILES continues observation.
2009/10/19 (JST)
SMILES began the test observations from October 10. It was confirmed that all instruments work normally, and expected low noise high quality atmospheric emission spectra ware obtained The initial result of the atmospheric abundance of observation molecule was also obtained. SMILES press release (Japanese)
2009/9/25 09:27 (JST)
SMILES was powered on.
2009/9/18 07:26 (JST)
SMILES on HTV arrived at the ISS. SMILES will be installed at JEM/EF by manipulation of robotic arms in next one week.
2009/9/11 02:01:46 (JST)
SMILES was launced via HTV/H-IIB from Tanegashima Space Center, JAXA.

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