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ESA Regains Contact With Lost Proba-3 Spacecraft
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ESA Regains Contact With Lost Proba-3 Spacecraft
Credit: ESA The European Space Agency has regained contact with the Coronagraph spacecraft of its Proba-3 mission after more than a month of silence. Launched aboard an ISRO PSLV-XL rocket in December 2024, the Proba-3 mission’s Coronagraph and Occulter spacecraft work in tandem to create and observe an artificial solar eclipse that enables observations of the Sun’s outer corona. When making observations, the satellites fly in a precise formatio…
After a month of fearful radio silence which left a fear of total loss, one of the two satellites of ESA's Proba-3 mission miraculously resumed contact with the Earth, saving in extremis a scientific project crucial for the study of the Sun.
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