Mapping the Milky Way
Europe's Gaia mission lifted off Dec. 19 atop a Soyuz ST-B rocket from the European Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, sending the star-charting astronomy observatory toward its final orbit at the L2 Lagrange point 1.5 million km (930,000 mi.) from Earth. Equipped with twin silicon-carbide...
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