With Proba-3, the European Space Agency is now bringing space exploration to a new level. It creates an artificial solar ...

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

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

For spectators, total solar eclipses – such as the one that dazzled millions in April across North America – represent ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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