On Dec. 5, 2024 the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission sent two spacecraft into orbit around Earth. By aligning the ...

ESA's Proba-3 will be the first mission to create an artificial total solar eclipse by flying a pair of satellites 150 meters ...

What's harder than flying a single satellite in Earth orbit? Flying two—right beside each other, at proximities that would ...

The European Space Agency on Thursday launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space ...

Launch occurred at 5:35 a.m. EST on Thursday (Dec. 5) after a technical glitch thwarted its first liftoff attempt.

ESA has launched three other Proba missions thus far, with one currently observing the Sun. Proba-2 launched in 2009, and was ...

Using one spacecraft to block the Sun and another to observe, the pair will fly in tandem with millimeter-level precision.

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy ...

What Aditya L1 and Proba-3 share in common is the coronagraph – an instrument designed to block the sun's bright rays and ...

An Indian PSLV rocket will launch Europe's Proba-3 precision formation-flying mission to orbit early Wednesday (Dec. 4), and ...

The European Space Agency launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research ...

The European Space Agency launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research ...