Proba-3 mission launch delayed to December 5 due to anomaly: ISRO
The Hindu
ISRO reschedules PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 launch due to anomaly; ESA's Proba-3 mission aims to demonstrate precision formation flying in space.
Due to an anomaly detected in Proba-3 spacecraft, the PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 launch has been rescheduled to Thursday (December 5, 2024), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Wednesday (December 4, 2024).
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 mission was scheduled to be launched today on ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
According to ESA, Proba-3 is the world’s first precision formation flying mission.
“A pair of satellites will fly together, maintaining a fixed configuration as if they were a single large rigid structure in space, to prove formation flying and rendezvous technologies,” states the ESA.
The mission will demonstrate formation flying in the context of a large-scale science experiment. Holding position to a precision of a single millimetre, one Proba-3 spacecraft will line up in front of the other, around 150 m away, to cast its shadow precisely onto the other.
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