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Launch Date
1/1/2024
Launch Site
SHAR FLP
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Launch Vehicle
PSLV-XL (PSLV Family)
A 45-strong Proba-3 Science Working Team of solar physicists from across Europe and the wider world visited the Proba-3 satellites at Redwire near Antwerp.
ESA’s pair of Proba-3 Sun-watching satellites have been placed in take-off configuration, one on top of the other, for testing at IABG in Germany.
The Visual-Based Sensor on Proba-3 will be used when the satellites are closer than 250 m to each other.
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.
Proba-3 completed its environmental testing campaign of the two satellites at the IABG facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany.
Sener led the industrial team that completed the environmental testing campaign of the two Proba-3 satellites at IABG facilities in Ottobrunn, Germany.
Proba-3 aims to deliver six hours of coronagraphy per orbit to fill the observational gap between standard UV telescopes and ground-based coronagraphs.
Proba-3 uses on-board autonomous vision systems together with optical and laser metrology to detect the partner spacecraft over distances of kilometres.
As of June 15, 2023, ESA reported the pair of Proba-3 satellites had been placed in take-off configuration for testing ahead of a planned lift-off the following year.
As of February 29, 2024, Proba-3 was due to be launched by a PSLV-XL launcher from India in September 2024.
As of June 27, 2024, Proba-3 was scheduled to launch in autumn 2024 on an Indian PSLV-XL launcher.
On January 26, 2025 between 01:55 and 08:29 UTC, s2a systems recorded the PROBA-3 satellites climbing from approximately 6,700 km to approximately 57,000 km in a highly elliptical orbit.
As of December 2, 2024, the Proba-3 double-satellite stack and their upper stage had been encapsulated within their launcher fairing on 29 November 2024.
On December 4, 2024, an operational update listed the PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 launch rescheduled for 5 December 2024 at 16:04 local time at ESA's request.
ISRO plans to launch the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 dual coronagraph and occulter technology demonstration spacecraft later in 2024.
Every spacecraft used for ESA’s Proba-1, Proba-2, Proba-V, and Proba-3 missions has been developed and integrated at Redwire’s Belgium facility.