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Proba: Euronews video report

The Proba satellites are part of ESA’s In‑orbit Technology Demonstration Programme: missions dedicated to flying innovative technologies

Proba-2 catches solar eclipse

21 May 2012 Europe missed Sunday’s solar eclipse on the other side of the planet but ESA’s space weather microsatellite Proba-2 passed repeatedly through the Moon’s shadow.

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‘Eye operation’ puts Proba-1 back in business

14 May 2012 After more than a decade in orbit, ESA’s Proba-1 was showing its age – even hibernating last winter. But a software fix to its startracker, radiation-impaired after surpassing its design lifetime fivefold, has returned the veteran Earth-observing microsatellite to full operation.

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8 March 2012	Proba-2 sees large solar flares that threaten geomagnetic storm

22 December 2011	Proba-2 tracks Comet Lovejoy through Sun’s fiery corona

2 December 2011	ESA's space weather station Proba-2 tracks stormy Sun

7 November 2011	Proba-1 charting Earth’s radiation belts for a decade

21 October 2011	Small but agile Proba-1 reaches 10 years in orbit

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