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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia (www.esa.int)
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Launched on 19 December 2013, Gaia’s fuel tank is now approaching empty – it uses about a dozen grams of cold gas per day to keep it spinning with pinpoint precision. But this is far from the end of the mission.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I love that we launched a spacecraft with the sole purpose of measuring the positions of as many stars as possible, just because we could. Well done Gaia, and all the teams who worked on it.