April 6, 2016. China put into space a retrievable scientific research satellite in the early hours of Wednesday in a fresh bid to aid scientists back on Earth in studying microgravity and space life science.

On April 8, 2016, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, Director General of European Space Agency congratulates on the successful launch of Shijian-10 recovery satellite. In his letter, he said, I’m very happy that ESA have been able to participate in this mission with the SCCO experiment…and this is very encouraging for future implementation of SMILE mission.