Europe’s solar spy satellite has gone dark and nobody knows why
Europe’s ambitious mission to photograph the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, has hit a serious snag. The European Space Agency (Esa) has lost contact with one of the two spacecraft powering its Proba-3 mission, and scientists are now racing to find out what went wrong. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PROBA-3 CORONAGRAPH? In early February, an…