IITM: Thanks to Ginger for sending me this link! See I said we were going to figure this out together and we are doing just that!
Summary:
ESA out of Belgium has a sun simulator
They have a mission called Proba3, using two probes names Occulter and Coronagraph, to artificially create solar eclipses.
They launched those probes April 8, 2024.
The researchers said they were going to use the American solar eclipse to ‘test the missions hardware’.
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