Enabling & Support
Proba-3 atop upper stage
Joint European and Indian team seen stood in front of the 2 Proba-3 spacecraft stacked atop their upper stage, ready to be mated with the rest of the PSLV-XL launcher at the SHAR base of the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, for launch on 4 December.
ESA’s twin Proba-3 platforms will perform precise formation flying down to a single millimetre, as if they were one single giant spacecraft. To demonstrate their degree of control, the pair will produce artificial solar eclipses in orbit, giving prolonged views of the Sun’s ghostly surrounding atmosphere, the corona.
