{"id":685444,"date":"2021-03-29T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685444"},"modified":"2021-03-29T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:09:00","slug":"corridor-test-of-proba-3s-formation-flying-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685444","title":{"rendered":"Corridor test of Proba-3\u2019s formation flying sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Proba-3_satellites_form_artificial_eclipse_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Proba-3 satellites form artificial eclipse\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The longest corridor in ESA\u2019s largest establishment was turned into a test site for one of the Agency\u2019s most ambitious future missions, Proba-3. The two satellites making up this mission will line up so that one casts a shadow onto the other, revealing inner regions of the Sun\u2019s ghostly atmosphere. But such precision formation flying will only be possible through a vision-based sensor system allowing one satellite to lock onto the other.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Proba_Missions\/Corridor_test_of_Proba-3_s_formation_flying_sensors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Corridor test of Proba-3\u2019s formation flying sensors<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest corridor in ESA\u2019s largest establishment was turned into a test site for one of the Agency\u2019s most ambitious future missions, Proba-3. The two satellites making up this mission&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685445,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/685445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}