Launch: PSLV-XL C59 - PROBA-3 x 2 (Occulter and Coronagraph for European Space Agency) - 4 December 2024

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Spacecraft will fly to India today for launch next month.

This would be 4th orbital launch of the year from SDSC.

ESA’s Solar Eclipse-Making Proba-3 Mmssion Head to India

Proba-3, ESA’s solar mission, departs Europe for launch, aiming to study the Sun's corona.

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For who wish to read about PROBA-3, from ESA's website.

About Proba-3

Proba-3 is ESA’s – and the world’s – first precision formation flying mission. A pair of satellites will fly together maintaining a fixed configuration as a ‘large rigid structure’ in space to prove formation flying technologies and rendezvous experiments.

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It would study fainter corona of the Sun.