Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 19, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Liftoff of Arianespace’s Soyuz mission with Gaia December 19, 2013 – Soyuz Flight VS06 Arianespace’s Soyuz launcher has begun its sixth flight from the Spaceport, carrying Europe’s Gaia star-mapper spacecraft for an ambitious mission to chart the Milky Way.Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 19, 2013 Author #2 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Next stop… the stars! Arianespace successfully lofts Gaia on Soyuz December 19, 2013 – Soyuz Flight VS06 Arianespace marked another mission accomplished for science as its medium-lift Soyuz successfully launched the European Space Agency’s Gaia billion-star surveyor today from the Spaceport in French Guiana.Gaia – named for the Greek mythological Mother Goddess – is now beginning an ambitious mission to chart the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted December 19, 2013 #3 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Good stuff, now we get highly accurate maps and distances. I wonder if Google will buy them..and make a real Hitch-hikers guide to the Galaxy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 19, 2013 Author #4 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Liftoff for ESA’s billion-star surveyor 19 December 2013 ESA PR 44-2013: ESA’s Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion suns.Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and motions of 1% of the total population of roughly 100 billion stars, it will answer questions about the origin and evolution of our home Galaxy. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 19, 2013 Author #5 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Gaia launch - Lift-offWatch a replay of ESA's billion-star surveyor Gaia launching into space at 09:12UT/10:12CET on 19 DecemberCredit: ESA / CNES / ArianespaceSource: ESA - Space in Videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xynoplas Posted December 19, 2013 #6 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Gaia will probably discover some new planets; it certainly has the gear on board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A rather obscure Bassoon Posted December 20, 2013 #7 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Can't wait,hopefully there will be some new discoveries along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeGelatin Posted December 20, 2013 #8 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I hope they find "Earth 2.0" and that we are able to send PPL there within the years that I am still amongst the living here on this planet... -I want one of my children to be part of the group of settlers that helps to colonize "The Real New World" so that my soul may, potentially, be reborn on a completely different planet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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