The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, ...

On June 16, 2025, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) unveiled groundbreaking images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar corona, thanks to its Proba-3 mission. This mission achieved an incredible feat ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun’s corona.

Using an engineering feat never before accomplished scientists have created artificial solar eclipses, so that they can view ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

UPDATE: Proba-3 launched successfully Thursday morning at 5:34 A.M. EST (10:34 GMT). You can watch a replay of the launch here.. In a fabulous feat of formation flying, the European Space Agency ...

Proba-3 is a technology demonstration mission first and foremost, with coronal observations only one type of formation flying it will attempt, along with resizing its baseline length, ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 is gearing up for launch on Wednesday at 5:38 a.m. ET. The double-satellite mission will liftoff from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India ...

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has achieved something no other mission—or synchronized swimmer—has before: autonomous, precision formation flying in space with millimeter accuracy.

Europe's Proba-3 satellites have demonstrated ultra-precise formation flying in orbit for the first time, a milestone with big implications for both science and future space missions.

A launch vehicle carrying two Proba-3 spacecraft takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Dec. 5. The Proba-3 satellites are designed to create artificial solar eclipses ...

The satellites fly 492 feet (150 meters) apart. One satellite blocks the sun, mimicking the moon's role in a natural solar eclipse. The other satellite then focuses its telescope on the corona, the ...