⏳🚀The launch #Proba3 will take place on Wed, Dec 4, at 11.38 Belgian local time.
The two Proba-3 satellites 🛰 will fly in formation around the Earth to create artificial ☀ #solareclipses 🌑.
#ASPIICS, managed by the @ORB_KSB, will image the solar corona and give new insights to this not very well-known part of the Sun.
🤩We are looking forward to watching it!
👁 https://www.astro.oma.be/en/launch-of-proba-3-on-december-4/
📺Follow the launch (starting Dec 4 at 11:00): https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV
Credit image: ESA – P. Carril.
#ESA:
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Europe says farewell to eclipse-making Proba-3
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"The mission’s two spacecraft – which will manoeuvre precisely in Earth orbit so that one casts a shadow onto the other – have departed the facilities of Redwire Space in Kruibeke, Belgium. The pair will be flown to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, near Chennai, for the launch campaign to begin."
31.10.2024
#ASPIICS #ISRO #ESEC #Proba3 #PSLV #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #Redu #SDSC #SpaceFlight #spaceprobe
ESA’s solar eclipse-making Proba-3 mission is about to leave Europe, to head to its launch site in India. The mission’s two spacecraft – which will manoeuvre precisely in Earth orbit so that one casts a shadow onto the other – have departed the facilities of Redwire Space in Kruibeke, Belgium. The pair will be flown to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, near Chennai, for the launch campaign to begin.
Royal Observatory of Belgium
RTN