Europe says farewell to eclipse-making Proba-3

Proba-3 Coronagraph being prepared for shipping

ESA’s solar eclipse-making Proba-3  mission is about to leave Europe, to head to its launch site in India. The mission’s two spacecraft – which will manoeuvre precisely in Earth orbit so that one casts a shadow onto the other – have departed the facilities of Redwire Space  in Kruibeke, Belgium. The pair will be flown to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, near Chennai, for the launch campaign to begin. 

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