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JEM/SMILES

Overview

 The objective of SMILES (Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder) is to demonstrate a sensitive submillimeter-wave sounder and to monitor global distributions of the stratshperic trace gases.
  SMILES, which is developed in a joint project between JAXA and NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) , is the first to use a superconductive low-noise receiver with a mechanical 4-K refrigerator in space.

What's new

16th November, 2009
Information on "publication list" page has been updated.
31st Oct., 2009
The HTV was departed from the ISS. [HTV/H-IIB Special Site]
25th Oct., 2009
SMILES mission team made a presentation on the initial results in the IGAC-SPARC Joint Workshop.
10th Oct., 2009
The performance confirmation of the SMILES L2 data processing system started.
28th Sep., 2009
The lowest temperature of the SMILES mechanical cooler reached about 4.1 Kelvin.
25th Sep., 2009
Two external experiments (SMILES and HREP) were installed on Kibo's Exposed Facility.
24th Sep., 2009
Information on "Presentation materials" page has been updated.
18th Sep., 2009
The HTV-1 's berthing completed at 10:49 a.m.
17th Sep., 2009
The HTV is scheduled to be berthed at the ISS on Sep.18 (Friday)
[Live Broadcast]
15th Sep., 2009
"Project topics" article has been added.
11th Sep., 2009
The H-IIB rocket has been launched.
27th July, 2009
Some notations in the RA document have been corrected.
[Document]
21st July, 2009
RA proposals will be accepted on or before July 24th.
10th July, 2009
Content of "Validation Plan" in a mission plan has been revised.
[Document]
8th July, 2009
The H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) will be launched on September 11th.
[Official release]
6th July, 2009
Information on "publication list" page has been updated.
29th May, 2009
SMILES research announcement (RA) has been released.
26th May, 2009
SMILES has been mounted on the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV).
 
14th May, 2009
SMILES has been mounted on EP ( Exposed Palette) .
[left] Before mounting / [right] After mounting
   
26th Apr, 2009
The performance confirmation examination of SMILES was executed in Tanegashima Space Center.
The performance confirmation examination of SMILES 1  The performance confirmation examination of SMILES 2
15th Apr, 2009
The consent of shipping SMILES to launch site in Tanegashima-island was given by Develofpment Completion Review (DCR).

Project topics

The first observation data from the SMILES
According to 4-K supercooled superconducting detector,SMILES realises highly precised observation of Earth’s atmospheric constituents than ever before.
[Press release]
Start of the SMILES initial check out (C/O)
An initial C/O which verifies the performance of the SMILES instrument in orbit is scheduled to begin from 25th Sep.
[SMILES initial C/O special site]
SMILES and HREP installed onto “Kibo”
The HREP and the SMILES were mounted at 8:15 p.m. on the 24th and 1:12 a.m on the 25th respectively.
Berthing operations completed
The HTV-1’s berthing was completed at 10:49 a.m. September 18, as the HTV FCT confirmed the power and data transmission between the HTV-1 and the ISS.
HTV/H-IIB Successfully Launched
The JAXA launched the H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) Demonstration Flight aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle Test Flight (H-IIB TF1) at 2:01:46 a.m. on September 11, 2009 (JST) from the Tanegashima Space Center. The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and, at about 15 minutes and 6 seconds after liftoff, the separation of the HTV Demonstration Flight was confirmed.
[Press releaseHTV-1 mission news]

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