{"id":452818,"date":"2026-05-17T01:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452818\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:59:13","slug":"europe-launches-a-new-mission-to-image-earths-magnetic-shield-in-2026-while-the-operational-satellite-warning-of-solar-storms-is-a-1995-spacecraft-running-28-years-past-retirement-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452818\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe launches a new mission to image Earth&#039;s magnetic shield in 2026 while the operational satellite warning of solar storms is a 1995 spacecraft running 28 years past retirement \u2014 the gap between discovery science and operational continuity within a sin &#8211; Space Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixwJBVV95cUxNRmhHb0R5OHJyWkZXUzMyU1JRXzJ3LXBoaERaWE5EcjRvZlRveGR2WVIwZ2ZjRkV6dExJSVp0bmxpcDBob1ptZDUxOXc1aVFPVGVqaGtPaldFdDU2dG0yWTBsSFBPOWdLZ1ZmNC1qUGUzRW5QZ0JoNDlGM2Zpc1FiRTNWMGQ2Tmc0RVAydHlwVzFXel9DNm1TOGtjZnlSc1Z0TFUzeWs3aDExM1B1UXpQbkI0a2JKeVFQVkJmdnNwN28wRGExS3RiTUFrZEU0QlBtWjdQS3pTeUhXVlVZUzNDbUJLYXB0aEVrZVdSWWd4R3pUODRuWDVpNVF2Qi1WdHlPR3M2N0pxTGktcm4wa1ptUG12QXFrZEhTOFJvTGRreGlfR0Vnam1FY1B0enJYY3RlNUNSTEVIRVE5cFV3T2N6NXhBQUV5Z0E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europe launches a new mission to image Earth&#8217;s magnetic shield in 2026 while the operational satellite warning of solar storms is a 1995 spacecraft running 28 years past retirement \u2014 the gap between discovery science and operational continuity within a sin<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Space Daily<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxNWTQzdDQ4RnZwaGFxcHJrOHdHNUpEdGdNOHJMZUlhNDJxd1Rheks5Zi1zT3FObDNEN1g2eVY2RVVkX0RlX09iNFFlRlV2YVFybkJjQjNTRnpRVzhkT0dtR1RNMlY5aHRUb01DRDZPdldVX25hQmpxV2RpNmMwY3JGOV9yamxnSnhyZVc2bVZQUk9IeTBjcGhNNUJzNllHTkpiOVR5STRGelFpVTZZZDZN?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vega-C with Smile inside its mobile hangar on the launch pad<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;European Space Agency<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxORXlhSk1rS3pkTDBwN0otc255TDBYTlM3MExOZ1REYUZrS0ZHWGZUaUwtQ2VqZXFQOFY4cFp4WVNMQWcwZUV4S2ZWaGJ2Z2FQelNCZWhNQmNLbno1RzNaNU9wYlpTdDBVaFdWSzdnNE9rdmtrRm9PQkp5aGtiMnp3V29zU0ZFN3NiMGtwS2J4azNpVzhBTkFYaXhIYVZQVHdx?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joint ESA-China SMILE mission set for launch to study Earth\u2019s magnetic shield<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;SpaceNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe launches a new mission to image Earth&#8217;s magnetic shield in 2026 while the operational satellite warning of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-452818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}