ESA (unofficial) on Nostr: Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the ...
Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way with extreme precision.But it’s not easy being a satellite: space is a dangerous place.
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