Passenger planes could start flying in convoy like flocks of migrating geese to slash fuel use. Virgin Atlantic is among several airlines taking part in trials that may ultimately allow jets to fly in ...

Generally speaking, space missions are being performed with lone spacecraft heading out into the void to achieve the desired goal of their makers. Sure, these machines might release other, smaller ...

In an 1892 football game against its arch rival Yale, Harvard unveiled a football formation called the “flying wedge” also ...

A pair of spacecraft have demonstrated ultra-precise formation flying in orbit for the first time, marking a milestone with major implications for both science and future space missions. The pair ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space Agency ...

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions. NPL, along with ...

The Sun’s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA’s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar eclipses ...

A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit. The European Space Agency mission, called Proba-3, will allow scientists “to see an eclipse on demand,” as ...

MILAN—The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a pair of satellites to demonstrate precision formation-flying in orbit. Liftoff of the Proba-3 mission is slated for Nov. 29 aboard an ...