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Stories about: Gaia

Gaia's Sunshield Deployed for the Very First Time The European Space Agency's (EAS) Gaia spacecraft has recently achieved an impressive milestone in its development, when its sunshield was deployed for the very first time. Mission controllers say that the probe remains well on track for a 2013 launch. At first, the name Gaia stood for Global Astrometric Inter... 8 December 2011 04:42 GMT ESA Builds Largest Digital Camera for Gaia Mission The Gaia mission that the European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch in the near future will feature the largest, most advanced digital camera ever to fly in space. The array will feature a resolution of about one billion pixels, which will be pieced together from 106 separate electronic detectors.All of thes... 6 July 2011 08:22 GMT ESA Spying on WMAP in Preparation for Gaia How does the ESA prepare for the launch of a new probe? Well, apparently, by taking several pictures of its partner's spacecraft. ESO's La Silla 2.2 meter telescope was recently used by three researchers to photograph NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, orbiting Earth from a distance of 1.5 mi... 9 May 2008 09:15 GMT