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Second anniversary of Gaia's launch

Gaia's lift-off

Gaia’s launch on a Soyuz-2 rocket on 19 December 2013. Image credit: ESA – S. Corvaja.

On the second anniversary of Gaia's launch, in a blog post on the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) Astro Blog, George Seabroke writes about the work of the MSSL Gaia team. The team's work included the commissioning of the Radial Velocity Spectrometer. Read the blog post.

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