Since its launch on December 5, the PROBA-3 teams have worked tirelessly on the commissioning of the spacecraft, their subsystems and their instruments. While both spacecraft were still attached, the ASPIICS instrument was used to test their pointing.
The star field below, taken by the ASPIICS coronagraph, shows us very sharp observations of the expected constellations, which confirms not only the pointing, but also the stability of the spacecraft.
Andrei Zhukov, Principal Investigator for ASPIICS, looks ahead: "Overall, we were very pleased with the accuracy of the spacecraft pointing and the quality of the image. It made us even more excited to see the corona images, expected as early as March."
