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Landmark space mission set to create artificial solar eclipses using satellites

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Proba-3 mission is the European Space Agency’s first attempt at precise formation flying in orbit.

Two spacecraft will loop around the planet in an arrangement that never deviates by more than a millimetre, about the thickness of a human fingernail.

If the satellites operate as intended, they will line up with the sun such that the lead spacecraft casts a carefully controlled shadow on its partner.

Data from the mission should shed light on the mystery of why the corona is so much hotter than the sun itself.

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