Picturing Proba-3 for safer double satellite control

Controlling a single satellite in orbit is tough enough, but to oversee a pair of satellites as they fly in close formation around one another is likely to be extremely challenging. To simplify oversight of ESA’s coming double-satellite Proba-3 mission, its team is making sure controllers will obtain visualisations of the satellites’ relative positions in real time.

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