diff --git a/news/3 Code Health/15573.md b/news/3 Code Health/15573.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1f8c1e6aa833
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/3 Code Health/15573.md	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix failing smoke tests on CI.
diff --git a/src/test/smoke/datascience.smoke.test.ts b/src/test/smoke/datascience.smoke.test.ts
index 23e1d3d94266..e2a034694a5b 100644
--- a/src/test/smoke/datascience.smoke.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/smoke/datascience.smoke.test.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import * as vscode from 'vscode';
 import { JUPYTER_EXTENSION_ID } from '../../client/common/constants';
 import { openFile, setAutoSaveDelayInWorkspaceRoot, waitForCondition } from '../common';
 import { EXTENSION_ROOT_DIR_FOR_TESTS, IS_SMOKE_TEST } from '../constants';
-import { noop, sleep } from '../core';
+import { sleep } from '../core';
 import { closeActiveWindows, initialize, initializeTest } from '../initialize';
 import { verifyExtensionIsAvailable } from './common';
 
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ suite('Smoke Test: Datascience', () => {
         if (await fs.pathExists(outputFile)) {
             await fs.unlink(outputFile);
         }
-        // Ignore exceptions (as native editor closes the document as soon as its opened);
-        await openFile(file).catch(noop);
+
+        await vscode.commands.executeCommand('jupyter.opennotebook', vscode.Uri.file(file));
 
         // Wait for 15 seconds for notebook to launch.
         // Unfortunately there's no way to know for sure it has completely loaded.