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: PROBВA-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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