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PROBA-3: blotting out the Sun


Date: 07 March 2011
Satellite: PROBA-3
Copyright: ESA/ S. Corvaja

The two satellites of PROBA-3 will fly in formation to form an external coronagraph in space, one satellite eclipsing the Sun to allow the second to study the otherwise invisible solar corona.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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