The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the ...

As per an ESA report, the mission uses a pair of satellites: one acts as an artificial moon blocking the sun, while the other captures images using a telescope called ASPIICS. This setup acts like a ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun ...

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit.Earlier this year, the two probes, which are part of the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission ...

But solar eclipses do not happen every day, so the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to create an artificial eclipse using the Proba-3 mission, and photos of the very first one have just been ...

Credit: ESA-P. Carril ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar eclipses on demand. Their first artificial eclipse ...