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PROBA‑3 coronagraph regains contact after month‑long outage

A month after an anomaly forced the PROBA‑3 Coronagraph into survival mode and cut ground contact, mission teams report the spacecraft has phoned home, re‑establishing communications. The recovery restores telemetry from the formation‑flying coronagraph used to create eclipse‑style observations of the Sun.

Discovered 2026-03-19T12:04:14.520749-07:00 | 2026-03-19T12:04:14.520749-07:00

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What Hype is tracking

  • Restores contact after a month‑long outage, reopening telemetry and command for the Coronagraph spacecraft and enabling engineers to assess health and resume operations (loss of contact report).
  • Protects planned science returns: PROBA‑3's formation‑flying coronagraph provides extended, high‑contrast "eclipse‑on‑demand" observations of the solar corona, so recovery preserves critical solar and space‑weather measurements (mission capability context).

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numerama.com European Spaceflight orbitaltoday.com dailygalaxy.com astrospace.it eandt.theiet.org
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2026-03-19T12:04:14.520749-07:00
Latest Update
2026-03-23T07:41:18.120729-07:00
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