European mission to imitate solar eclipse launches from India

Paris (AFP) Dec 5, 2024

A European mission launched from India on Thursday, aiming to catch a rare glimpse of the Sun’s mysterious atmosphere by imitating a solar eclipse using two satellites flying with millimetre-level precision.

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission blasted off on a Indian rocket from a launchpad on the island of Sriharikota at around 4:04 pm (1034 GMT), an online broadcast showed.

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