ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

First artificial solar eclipse captured in orbit By Talker News Jun 17, 2025 Updated Jun 17, 2025 (ESA/NASA/Proba-2/Proba-3 et al. via SWNS) ...

Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona. The mission's two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a ...

The difference is that we can create our eclipse once every 19.6-hour orbit, while total solar eclipses only occur naturally around once, very rarely twice, a year,” Zhukov explains in an ESA ...

The agency said the satellites, named Coronagraph and Occulter, flew 429 feet apart in perfect formation for "several hours" without being controlled from the ground to create the artificial eclipse.

Incredible images show the first artificial solar eclipse in orbit. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 mission involves two satellites flying in precise formation, with one spacecraft ...

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The most recent total solar eclipse took place on April 8, 2024, when millions of people across Mexico, the United States and Canada witnessed the brilliant celestial sight. The next one is right ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar eclipses in space with its Proba-3 mission.