The “sonic region” of the Sun corona remains extremely difficult to observe with spatial
resolution and sensitivity sufficient to understand the fine scale phenomena that govern the …

In the framework of development of ASPIICS (Association of Spacecraft for Polarimetric and
Imaging Investigation of the Corona of the Sun), the Centre Spatial de Liege is responsible …

PROBA-3 ESA's mission aims at demonstrating the possibility and the capacity to carry out a
space mission in which two spacecrafts fly in formation and maintain a fixed configuration. In …

This paper presents the current status of ASPIICS, a solar coronagraph that is the primary
payload of ESA's formation flying in-orbit demonstration mission PROBA-3. The “sonic …

PROBA-3 [1][2] is a Mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) composed of two
formation-flying satellites, planned for their joint launch by the end of 2018. Its main …

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning to launch in 2018 the PROBA3 Mission,
designed to demonstrate the inorbit formation flying (FF) attitude capability of its two …

Context. The ASPIICS instrument is a novel externally occulted coronagraph that will be
launched on board the PROBA-3 mission of the European Space Agency. The external …

PROBA-3 is the forth of the PROBA technological mission designed by the European Space
Agency. The main purpose of PROBA-3 is to demonstrate the capabilities of two different …

PROBA-3 is a space mission of the European Space Agency that will test, and validate
metrology and control systems for autonomous formation flying of two independent satellites …

The PROBA-3 double-spacecraft formation flying mission of the European Space Agency
(ESA) has been presented in recent papers with details about the mission profile, the …