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Proba-3 is a European Space Agency technology demonstration mission consisting of two separate spacecraft. These satellites are designed to fly in precise formation to maintain a fixed distance from each other. The Occulter spacecraft blocks the Sun's disk, allowing the Coronagraph spacecraft to obs...
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Successful precision formation flying and artificial eclipse demonstrations represent exceptional engineering, producing valuable prolonged views of the solar corona.
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Bernard Lyot (1897–1952) was a French astronomer at the Meudon Observatory whose most significant contribution was the invention of the coronagraph in 1930, an instrument that creates an artificial eclipse inside a telescope so the solar corona can be observed in daylight. He also developed the Lyot...
