ISRO reschedules ESA Proba-3 launch after ‘anomaly detected’

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has rescheduled the launch of the European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-3 double-satellite mission, which aims to create artificial eclipses in Earth’s orbit to help study the Sun.  

EASA’s Proba-3 mission, which is the first program in the world to experiment with precision formation flying of two spacecraft, was initially scheduled to take off aboard an Indian PSLV-C59 launch vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, on December 4, 2024, at 16:08 local time.  

However, right before the launch ISRO announced on X that due to an “anomaly” detected in the PROBA-3 spacecraft PSLV-C59, the launch was postponed to December 5, 2024, at 16:12 local time.

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