The European Space Agency on Thursday launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's flagship rocket. The launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre,

Proba-3 satellites onboard PSLV-C59 rocket is a 'groundbreaking mission' and would significantly advance the understanding of Sun's corona and solar wind, a former ISRO scientist said.

The European Space Agency on Thursday launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's flagship rocket. The launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre,

ESA has launched three other Proba missions thus far, with one currently observing the Sun. Proba-2 launched in 2009, and was originally meant to spend two years in a Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit but is still going more than 15 years later.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative involving precision-flying, ISRO on Thursday successfully launched the Proba-3 mission onboard a PSLV-C59 rocket, a solar experiment undertaken by the European Space

The European Space Agency launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's flagship rocket on Thursday, advancing global efforts to understand the economic and technological risks of space weather.

ISRO successfully placed the two satellites of the Proba-3 mission into a high elliptical orbit. Proba-3 lifted off on a PSLV-C59 rocket from this spaceport at a prefixed time today. European Space Agency's director general Josef Aschbacher thanked ISRO for giving a 'superb boost' to space exploration.