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ESA’s Proba-3 created its own solar eclipse just hours before the real one swept across Europe

Hours before the Moon’s shadow crossed parts of Europe on August 12, 2026, ESA’s Proba-3 mission created its own solar eclipse 60,000 kilometers above Earth. The artificial event allowed the mission ...
Phys.org

ESA's Proba 3 is unlocking secrets of the solar wind

It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful new tool in their arsenal: on-demand, total solar eclipses. Launched in 2024, The ...
Forbes

Two Spacecraft Are Creating Fake 5-Hour Solar Eclipses—And Revealing A Faster Solar Wind

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Sun’s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken ...

Aditya-L1, Proba-3 team up to decode early evolution of Solar eruptions

Joint study help measure mass, density & energy of Coronal Mass Ejections close to Sun ...
autoevolution

First Spacecraft to Perform Formation Flying in Orbit Also Makes Eclipses to Study the Sun

At the end of 2024, an Indian rocket took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the east coast of India, carrying, among other things, a pair of spacecraft unlike anything before them. Designed ...
earthsky

Slow solar wind is oddly fast, says Proba-3

The orange part of this image shows the sun in ultraviolet light, captured by ESA’s Proba-2 spacecraft. The gray part is a visible-light view of solar wind streaming through the sun’s atmosphere, ...
The News Herald

Dunmore and Aviotec Collaboration Supports Groundbreaking ESA’s Proba-3 Mission

BRISTOL, PA, UNITED STATES, May 26, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Dunmore, a leading manufacturer of advanced materials for aerospace and space applications, announced ...