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        <description>📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel and stay updated with our latest analysis and interviews:👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg 👈 The groundbreaking SMILE satellite launched on May 19 and Razor's Neil Cairns talks to the co-principal investigator, Dr. Colin Forsyth, at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Nestled in the Surrey countryside, MSSL is a world leader in space research. Dr. Forsyth explains the mission's remarkable ambition: to observe the boundary at which Earth's magnetosphere deflects the charged particles of the solar wind, a natural shield that protects all life on our planet. SMILE is a rare joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The work load was split 50-50 with China providing the spacecraft bus – the fuel tanks, the solar panels and the main body of the spacecraft. Europe is providing the payload platform – the module which all of the instruments plug into, and that interfaces with the spacecraft. The Soft X-ray Imager, or SXI is the most significant of four instruments carried on board. Neil travels to Leicester Space Park at the University of Leicester – where the SXI was designed and built – to hear from its co-principal investigator, Dr. Jenny Carter. Additional footage courtesy of: European Space Agency (ESA) NASA University of Leicester UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory Download our APP on Apple Store (iOS): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cctvnews-app/id922456579?l=zh&amp;ls=1&amp;mt=8 Download our APP on Google Play (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imib.cctv For  more: https://www.cgtn.com/video Most watched videos: Impossible Challenge: 30 seconds to count banknotes BLINDFOLDED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmP_Ybj-jws Impossible Challenge: Gymnastics Boy Arat Hosseini from Iran! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sxX--U4c8w Impossible Challenge: How to calm babies in 5 seconds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3q9sXM7WA</description>
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