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

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

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

Proba-3 is a groundbreaking mission that relies on the teamwork of two spacecraft to unlock the Sun’s secrets. While the ...

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

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