Proba-3 involves more than 40 companies from 14 ESA member states and required more than a decade of development.
Proba-3 aims to observe the corona of the Sun.
Redwire is responsible for spacecraft integration, testing, and providing the onboard computer for Proba-3 under a contract with Sener.
ESA’s PROBA-1, PROBA-2, and PROBA-V missions that Redwire prime contracted have a combined flight time of nearly 50 years without failure.
The revised ESA mission will instead seek to remove the ESA Project for On-Board Autonomy-1 (Proba-1) satellite from low Earth orbit along with other changes.
Redwire’s expanded European operations support European Space Agency programs including Cheops, Proba-3, Euclid, the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism for the lunar Gateway, and the Hera mission.
Proba-1 is a 94-kilogram European Space Agency technology demonstration satellite launched in 1998.
ISRO plans to launch the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 dual coronagraph and occulter technology demonstration spacecraft later in 2024.
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.
Proba-3’s ASPIICS instrument uses filter wheels that will be used to observe the 8 April 2024 solar eclipse over North America.
Sener led the industrial team that completed the environmental testing campaign of the two Proba-3 satellites at IABG facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany.
Sener led an industrial team for Proba-3 that includes Redwire Space, Airbus Defence and Space in Spain, GMV Space and Defence, and Spacebel.
The Proba-3 satellites are scheduled to be launched in 2024.
Proba-3 completed its environmental testing campaign of the two satellites at the IABG facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany.
The European Space Agency will operate the Proba-3 system for the remainder of the mission after delivery.
The Sener-led industrial team for Proba-3 includes Redwire Space, Airbus Defence and Space in Spain, GMV Space and Defence, and Spacebel.
After completing platform validation, the Proba-3 industrial team led by Sener is focusing on flight software functional testing on the satellites and completing operational preparations using ground segment tools.
An orbital verification phase will take place after separation and before delivery of Proba-3 to the European Space Agency.
The Proba-3 satellites are scheduled to launch in 2024.
Once in its 564 km altitude orbit Proba-V CC will perform co-observations of global vegetation with Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites.