Creating artificial eclipses to study the Sun
Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft to observe the Sun’s faint surrounding atmosphere, its disk-bearing Occulter spacecraft must block out the fiery solar disk. This means Proba-3’s Occulter ends up facing the Sun continuously, making it a valuable platform for science in its own right.
Proba-3 is scheduled for launch on a PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Wednesday, 4 December, at 11:38 CET (10:38 GMT, 16:08 local time).
Credits: ESA – European Space Agency
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Here's to a successful mission ESA and Proba 3!
Kudos to ISRO and ESA. INDIA is always amazing ❤🇮🇳
"giant virtual spacecrafts, like giant telescopes" man, I was so excited about this
Finally some good thing from Europe ❤
Wow 1-3 million degree Celsius 😲
so one will play the role of moon and other one will play the role of earth…… ryt i hope no ?
6:45 such a beautiful dance, in an insane elliptical orbit 😚😍 hats off to the orbital mechanics and system design engineers
With ISRO launching it, it was bound to be a successful launch.