Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday successfully launched Proba-3, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission, marking a significant milestone in international space collaboration. The mission was launched using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Southern India at 4.04 p.m. local time (1034GMT). According to Anadolu Agency, ISRO confirmed the mission's success by announcing on X, "Mission Success! The PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 Mission has successfully achieved its launch objectives, deploying ESA's satellites into their designated orbit with precision." The ESA described the double-satellite mission as the most ambitious of the Proba family of experimental missions, which aims to explore the Sun's corona. Proba-3 is an in-orbit demonstration mission focused on precise formation flying, a groundbreaking technology. The mission consists of two spacecraft, the Coronagraph Spacecraft and the Occulter Spacecraft, launched together in a stacked config uration. ISRO highlighted that this mission is the world's first precision formation-flying mission, where the pair of satellites will fly together, maintaining a fixed configuration as if they were a single large rigid structure in space. The successful launch follows a delay due to an anomaly detected in the Proba-3 spacecraft, which led to the rescheduling of the mission from its initial launch date on Wednesday.