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Proba 3: formation flying with millimetre precision

Submit on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 22:57

ESA’s Proba 3 project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimetre precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the lens and detector hundreds of metres apart.

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