At the end of 2024, an Indian rocket took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the east coast of India, carrying, among other things, a pair of spacecraft unlike anything before them. Designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and a bunch of local companies, the Proba-3 satellites have already managed a couple of world firsts, and they’re not even close to being done yet.
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