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Commissioning update

Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 12:58

http://blogs.esa.int/gaia/2014/04/24/commissioning-update/

The Gaia project team provides an update on the ongoing commissioning activities of ESA’s billion star surveyor…

Detecting sources

Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 09:08

http://blogs.esa.int/gaia/2014/04/03/detecting-sources/

As part of the ongoing commissioning activities of Gaia, the satellite’s Sky Mapper has briefly been used in a special mode to image a patch of the sky close to the Galactic plane (below).

Gaia tilt watched from Earth

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 12:28

http://blogs.esa.int/gaia/2014/03/04/gaia-tilt-watched-from-earth/

As part of the tests to try and diagnose the stray light issue noticed in the first month of instrument commissioning, the Gaia operations team is making a

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