{"id":233725,"date":"2026-03-20T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/miracle-europe-reconnects-with-lost-spacecraft"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:15:41","slug":"miracle-europe-reconnects-with-lost-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/miracle-europe-reconnects-with-lost-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miracle\u2019: Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/miracle-europe-reconnects-with-lost-spacecraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its Proba-3 mission, after losing contact with the satellite a month ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-spacecraft-fly-precisely-line-imitate.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Proba-3<\/a>, which launched on a two-year mission in 2024, uses two spacecraft flying in precise formation to simulate a solar eclipse more than 60,000 kilometers (37,000 miles) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used this delicate dance to get a rare glimpse of the sun\u2019s little-known outer atmosphere, which is called the corona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its Proba-3 mission, after losing contact with the satellite a month ago. Proba-3, which launched on a two-year mission in 2024, uses two spacecraft flying in precise formation to simulate a solar eclipse more than 60,000 kilometers (37,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233725","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}