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Smile enters its ‘space environment testing’ phase in style – in the spike-lined Maxwell Chamber at Europe’s largest satellite test facility, ESTEC.

Find out what engineers are putting the spacecraft through 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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In the foreground of the image, 22 engineers wearing cleanroom suits, hair and beard nets, and shoe coverings smile at the camera. They are posing in front of a shiny gold spacecraft, in the centre of the image. The walls of the room in which they stand are lined with blue foam spikes that point away from the wall, towards the spacecraft.
April 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM