The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

While the film covers what the CATE 2024 project is and the value of science and data collection, it more importantly follows ...

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

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

Proba-3 will create about 1,000 hours of images of the corona over its two-year mission — and anyone will be able to download the data. "We have an open data policy — the uncalibrated data will be ...

On June 16, 2025, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) unveiled groundbreaking images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

As per an ESA report, the mission uses a pair of satellites: one acts as an artificial moon blocking the sun, while the other captures images using a telescope called ASPIICS. This setup acts like a ...

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the ...

Data from the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission will help solar scientists be better prepared for the potential threat ...