Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has rescheduled the European Space Agency’s PROBA-3 spacecraft launch due to an anomaly detected in the satellite. It will now be launched at 4:12 PM today onboard PSLV-C59 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Earlier, the mission was scheduled to be launched at 4:08 PM yesterday.

Dubbed as the world’s first initiative, the Proba-3 consists of two satellites in which two spacecraft would fly together as one, maintaining precise formation down to a single millimetre to study the sun’s outer atmosphere.

New Space India Ltd, the commercial arm of ISRO, has bagged the order from the European Space Agency. The significant objective of the mission is ‘formation flying in precision’ and to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere.