{"id":213882,"date":"2025-05-13T05:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/european-space-agency-makes-history-with-worlds-first-spacecraft-precision-formation-flying-in-orbit"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:09:20","slug":"european-space-agency-makes-history-with-worlds-first-spacecraft-precision-formation-flying-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/european-space-agency-makes-history-with-worlds-first-spacecraft-precision-formation-flying-in-orbit","title":{"rendered":"European Space Agency makes history with world\u2019s first spacecraft precision formation flying in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/european-space-agency-makes-history-with-worlds-first-spacecraft-precision-formation-flying-in-orbit.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space missions are often performed with lone spacecraft, but the Proba-3 spacecraft, built by the European Space Agency (ESA) has finally introduced some teamwork in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>The ESA\u2019s latest spacecraft made history by achieving the first spacecraft precision formation flying in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The mission was launched on an Indian rocket at the end of 2024, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the east coast of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space missions are often performed with lone spacecraft, but the Proba-3 spacecraft, built by the European Space Agency (ESA) has finally introduced some teamwork in the mix. The ESA\u2019s latest spacecraft made history by achieving the first spacecraft precision formation flying in orbit. The mission was launched on an Indian rocket at the end of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}