European Space Agency launches billion-dollar Gaia telescope
Lazarus Sauti
News of the South - The
European Space Agency (ESA) today launched an advanced telescope, Gaia,
designed to detect a billion stars and provide the most detailed map yet of the
Milky Way.
The agency reported in a
webcast that the telescope was successfully hoisted by a Soyuz-STB-Fregat
rocket from ESA’s space base in Kourou, French Guiana.
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