Europe launched the Gaia satellite – one of the most ambitious space missions in the history. Giga lifted on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport from the Kourou in French Guiana at 6:12 local time on 19th December 2013. It will map the precise positions and distances to more than a billion stars.
This will give the first realistic picture of how the Milky Galaxy has been constructed and will also detect thousands of unseen objects like asteroids and new planets.
The satellite is carrying two telescopes that will throw light on to a huge, one billion-pixel camera detector connected to a trio of instruments. It has been developed to sample the ultra-stable and supersensitive optical equipment to pinpoint.
Giga’s journey will take about a month as it will travel about one and half kilometers to the observatory station from the earth.
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