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 stratospheric 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
- 18th Jan., 2012
- Notice for delay of public release of SMILES L2 data has been uploaded. (See "Project topics")
- 10th Jan., 2012
- Level 2 product ver. 2.1 (007-08-0310) have been released. This is a fifth release to the SMILES RA applicants.
- 2nd Dec., 2011
- The 6th atmospheric limb conference (29th Nov. to 1st Dec.) have been successfully concluded.
- 3rd Oct., 2011
- Level 2 product ver. 2.0 (007-08-0300) have been released.
- 16th Mar., 2011
- SMILES International workshop 2011 spring was held, but due to the terrible disaster in northeastern Japan, the 6th atmospheric limb conference has been postponed.
- 7th Dec., 2010
- Registration for the SMILES International Workshop 2011 spring started.
- [Registration page]
- 2nd Dec., 2010
- SMILES international workshop 2011 spring will be held at Kyoto university on March 14th and 15th.
- [Workshop special site]
- 21th Jun., 2010
- The selection result of the Research Announcement has been posted.
- 18th May, 2010
- SMILES mission team made a presentation on the progress of the L2 data processing system in the 15th international workshop on ASSFTS.
[Presentation [2.7 MB]・Abstract [0.1 MB]]
- 8th Feb., 2010
- Information on the way to the SMILES international workshop venue was added in "workshop special site"
- 20th Jan., 2010
- Information on the L2 product data was added in "Observational Information" page.
- 13th Jan., 2010
- Information on "Observational Information" page has been updated.
- 18th Dec., 2009
- SMILES mission team made a presentation on the progress of the L2 data processing system in the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting.
[2009 AGU Fall Meeting・Presentation [0.3 MB]]
- 17th Dec., 2009
- SMILES international workshop 2010 will be held at ISAS on March 1st and 2nd.
- 24th Nov., 2009
- SMILES mission team made a presentation on the progress of the L2 data processing system in the 5th Atmospheric Limb Conference.
[5th Atmospheric Limb Conference・Presentation [13 MB]]
- 16th Nov., 2009
- Information on "publication list" page has been updated.
- 31th 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]
- 21th 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.
- 15th Apr, 2009
- The consent of shipping SMILES to launch site in Tanegashima-island was given by Develofpment Completion Review (DCR).
Project topics
- Delay for public release of SMILES L2 products
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We JAXA/ISAS SMILES team have been working on the "public release version" of SMILES L2 product in order to make it open to the public by the end of 2011. However, due to the coordination procedure within the data providing organizations, the time of public release will be February or March of this year 2012. Thank you for your patience and understanding. |
- SMILES Level 2 product ver. 2.1 (007-08-0310) release
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The latest version of SMILES L2 products have been released to limited researchers who had applied SMILES RA. All users can refer to brief summary of the product specifications via the release note.
[see Observational Information page] |
- SMILES Level 2 product ver. 2.0 (007-08-0300) release
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The latest version of SMILES L2 products have been released to limited researchers who had applied SMILES RA. All users can refer to brief summary of the product specifications via the release note.
[see Observational Information page] |
- SMILES Level2 product ver. 1.3 (006-06-0200) release
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SMILES Level 2 data ver. 1.3 began to be released to RA PIs on 2nd March, 2011. |
- Holding of the SMILES international workshop 2011 spring
- Holding of the SMILES international workshop 2010 fall
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SMILES International workshop was held on September 13th and 14th, 2010. |
- About SMILES failure
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It was found that the discontinuation of SMILES observation had been
caused by the failure of the part of submillimeter receiver subsystem.
[JAXA press release]･[NICT press release] (only in Japanese) |
- Discontinuation of SMILES observation
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The observation of SMILES has been discontinued since 09:00 (GMT) of 21st April,
because one of components in submillimeter-wave receiver turned to the stand-by mode.
[JAXA press release]･[NICT press release] (only in Japanese) |
- SMILES Level2 product ver. 0032 release
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SMILES Level 2 data ver. 0032 began to be released to RA PIs on 19th April, 2010. |
- Holding of the SMILES international workshop 2010
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SMILES International workshop was held on March 1st and 2nd, 2010. |
- SMILES Level2 product ver. 0024 release
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SMILES Level 2 data ver. 0024 began to be released to RA PIs on 21th January, 2010. |
- Start of the SMILES normal operation
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The initial C/O of the SMILES was completed successfully. The SMILES has been transferred to normal operation phase on 6th November, 2009. |
- The first observation data from the SMILES
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According to 4-K supercooled superconducting detector,SMILES realises highly precised observation of Earth’s atmospheric constituents than ever before.
[Press release] |
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- Start of the SMILES initial check out (C/O)
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An initial C/O which verifies the performance of the SMILES instrument
in orbit is scheduled to begin from 25th September, 2009.
[SMILES initial C/O special site] |
- SMILES and HREP installed onto “Kibo”
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The HREP and the SMILES were mounted at 8:15 p.m. on the 24th and 1:12 a.m on the 25th September, 2009 respectively. |
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- Berthing operations completed
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The HTV-1's berthing was completed at 10:49 a.m. 18th September, 2009, as the HTV FCT confirmed the power and data transmission between the HTV-1 and the ISS. |
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- HTV/H-IIB Successfully Launched
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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 11th September, 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 release・HTV-1 mission news] |
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