Posted by Andrei Zhukov | June 30, 2026 | General news

Following the successful recovery of the Proba-3 mission, the Science Operations Center (SOC) of the ASPIICS coronagraph has reprocessed the ASPIICS science data. The main improvements in the new Version 03 (v03) data release, compared with the previous version, are:

* Improved calibration of the detector non-linearity.
* Improved determination of the telescope’s absolute pointing.
* Implementation of continuum subtraction for narrowband data in the Level 3 data products.

In addition, a number of smaller improvements and bug fixes have been incorporated. The ASPIICS data are freely available to both the scientific community and the general public at the website of the Proba-3/ASPIICS Science Center, hosted by the ASPIICS SOC at the Royal Observatory of Belgium: https://www.sidc.be/proba-3/aspiics-data

The archive includes:

* Level-1 data (uncalibrated FITS files),
* Level-2 data (calibrated FITS files),
* Level-3 data (merged FITS files covering the full field of view),
* PNG images and MP4 movies for browsing and quick-look analysis.

The archive currently contains data acquired from the start of the nominal mission in July 2025 through the most recent observations in June 2026. Data from ongoing and future observing campaigns will be added to the archive as soon as they become available at the SOC. The Science Center website also provides detailed information about the observing programs carried out during ASPIICS operations.