EADS Astrium Wins Pact for Milky Way Mapping Probe
The European Space Agency has awarded EADS Astrium a contract for a probe to provide a 3-D map of 1 billion stars in the Milky Way--10,000 times as many as ESA's previous star-mapping mission, Hipparcos. The 557-million-euro ($707.4-million) probe, named Gaia, will feature twin silicon carbide...
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