ESA PRE-LAUNCH BFG FOR THE SMILE MISSION (in English), Mar 26, 2026, 9:00 am ET

ESA will hold pre-launch briefings in several languages for the smile mission that is scheduled for launch between April 8 and May 7, 2026. Smile will study how Earth responds to the solar wind from the Sun.

The briefings are on March 25 and 26.  The full list is on ESA’s website. The briefing in English is on March 26, 2026 at 14:00 Central European Time (9:00 am EDT — Europe does not change to summer time until March 29) and will livestream on ESA’s website.

Participants are:

Carole Mundell, Director of Science, ESA
David Agnolon, Smile Project Manager, ESA
Ignasi Pardos Biarnes, Vega Launch System and Engineering Manager, ESA
Colin Forsyth, Associate Professor in the Space Plasma Physics Group at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Jing Li, Smile Project Manager, CAS
Raquel González Sola, General Director, Airbus Spain

More information is in ESA’s press release.