Proba-3 infographic: In a nutshell

Through exquisite, millimetre-scale formation flying, the dual satellites making up ESA’s Proba-3 will accomplish what was previously a space ‘mission impossible’: cast a precise shadow from one spacecraft to the other, in the process blocking out the fiery face of the Sun to observe its ghostly surrounding atmosphere, the corona, on a prolonged basis.

Proba-3 will be the first mission to:

-          Perform formation flying down to 1 mm precision

-          Survey the Sun’s corona in visible light so close to the solar rim.