Eclipse

Surveyor 3 used a mirror to bring the Earth into view from its landed geometry to image the solar eclipse.

Blue Ghost captured a total solar eclipse from the Moon on March 14, 2024, recording sunlight refracting through Earth’s outer atmosphere as a ring glow.

Blue Ghost made eclipse observations across five hours on battery power while surrounding surface temperatures dropped far below 0°C and reached approximately -170°C.

On March 14, 2025, Blue Ghost will observe a total solar eclipse from the Moon.

The NISAR spacecraft is in storage to wait until the eclipse period ends on 2024-02-08 and until the launch pad at India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre becomes available.

ISRO’s Chandrayaan spacecraft have viewed a solar eclipse from lunar orbit.

Chandrayaan 1 imaged the total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 from lunar orbit.

Chandrayaan 1 operators sent time-tagged commands a priori for the spacecraft to execute sequentially during the July 22, 2009 eclipse.

Chandrayaan 1 was commanded to pitch slowly to scan Earth between ±10° and to roll by ±3° to ensure Luna’s totality shadow fell within the Terrain Mapping Camera view during the July 22, 2009 eclipse.

Sierra Space launched the Sierra Space Eclipse satellite bus line.

Eclipse Velocity is a small satellite bus designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with integrated rendezvous, proximity operations and docking (RPOD) capabilities and full 6-DOF controls.

Sierra Space launched the Sierra Space Eclipse satellite bus line.

Predictive Science is using data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory to predict the appearance of the Sun’s corona for the 2024-04-08 total solar eclipse.

The APEP sounding rockets were previously launched and successfully recovered from White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico during the October 2023 annular solar eclipse.

The APEP sounding rockets will launch at three different times: 45 minutes before, during, and 45 minutes after the peak local eclipse.

The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) sounding rockets will launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study disturbances in the ionosphere created when the Moon eclipses the Sun.

NASA intends to launch three sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse on 2024-04-08 to study how Earth’s upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of the planet.

Members of the Proba-3 Science Working Team will test hardware developed for the mission during the total solar eclipse over North America on 8 April 2024.