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ISRO Pslv C59 Proba 3 Launch

ISRO Pslv C59 Proba 3 Launch - The PSLV-C59 The launch was a partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and NewSpace India Limited (NSIL). 

Today, the Indian space agency ISRO successfully launched the European Space Agency's PROBA-3 satellite. The launch occurred on ISRO's workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV, on its 61st commercial mission, 'C-59'.

PROBA, or Project for Onboard Anatomy, is a space mission run by the European Space Agency, or ESA. PROBA has launched a number of satellites. Today was the third in the series, therefore the name PROBA-3. PROBA-3 is a solar mission. Its aim Name: PROBÐ’A-З. aims to investigate the Sun's corona in unprecedented detail. 

PROBA-3 is made up of two independent, three-axis stabilised spacecraft: the Coronagraph Spacecraft, or CSC, weighing 310 kg, and the Occulter Spacecraft, or OSC, weighing 240 kg. Both spacecraft will be in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, with an apogee or distance from the planet's surface at the equator of 60,500 kilometers.

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