Two satellites from the European Space Agency are designed to create eclipses on demand, which scientists hope will lead to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A pair of spacecraft are launching on a mission to observe the sun's corona by having one cast a precise shadow from which ...

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

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