'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-miracle-europe-reconnects-lost-spacecraft.html

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touwer•1h ago

I'm glad that this site at least left ~10% of the screen on my phone to read the article, next to all banners and newsletter ads. It's not 5%, great!

messe•1h ago

Use U-Block origin. At this point I consider it a necessity for accessibility. I find it impossible to read anything with animated or video adverts. I truly cannot focus on the text. It's user-hostile, ableist, and content producers that continue using them can go fuck themselves. I have no ethical qualms about depriving them of revenue.

Timwi•50m ago

Question: does it actually deprive them of revenue even if I was never going to click on an ad anyway?

varjag•37m ago

The ads delivery ecosystem billing is generally structured around impressions not click through rate (which depends a lot on the nature of the ad). So yes it does.

Timwi•46m ago

I'm genuinely curious: I'm sure you know about the existence of ad blockers. They're not exactly new technology. I'm sure you also know that everyone here knows about ad blockers. So I'm genuinely wondering: what does it do for you to complain about the ads here? Especially in a way that some will no doubt take as you never having heard of ad blockers?

iamkonstantin•28m ago

There is also the original ESA post with a lot less ads and correctly implemented opt out from analytics https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

graemep•1h ago

The European Space Agency, not 'Europe'. Just as annoying as calling the EU Europe, and calling both Europe despite different membership is just confusing.

anonymars•58m ago

Is metonymy really so unreasonable in this title?

donohoe•51m ago

“North America puts man on the moon”

Yes. Yes it is.

anonymars•47m ago

Now let's evaluate "America puts man on moon"

embedding-shape•46m ago

Didn't think it was possible, but yes, you made it even worse.

anonymars•31m ago

A good title is brief and clear.

"'Miracle': European Space Agency reconnects with lost spacecraft" is long.

"'Miracle': ESA reconnects with lost spacecraft" is opaque.

The first four words of the article are, "The European Space Agency..."

Timwi•45m ago

You have it exactly right. I read the title the way it was intended and I think the complaint was pedantic.

notahacker•9m ago

I doubt there's anyone in the small group of people that actually need to care about the distinction between EU and ESA spacecraft who doesn't already know this is an ESA mission anyway, and if such a person exists they can probably read as far as the first four words...

vrganj•30m ago

"America landed on the moon" vs "NASA landed on the moon".

tetris11•36m ago

> Proba-3, works just like a real solar eclipse. One spacecraft, which is roughly circular when viewed from the front, orbits closer to the sun, and its job is to block the bright parts of the sun, acting as the moon would in a real eclipse. It casts a shadow on a second probe that has a camera capable of photographing the resulting artificial eclipse.

> Having two separate spacecraft flying independently but in such a way that one casts a shadow on the other is a challenging task. But future missions depend on scientists figuring out how to make this precision choreography technology work, and so Proba-3 is a test.

Oh wow, they've potentially rescued this (very cool!) mission for both probes

anonymars•23m ago

Scott Manley had this nice overview of the mission

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfW645jhbKM

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