Gaia star surveyor joins Soyuz rocketBY STEPHEN CLARKSPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: December 16, 2013
A team of Russian and European technicians working in the Amazon jungle transferred a Soyuz rocket and a sharp-eyed astronomical observatory to the launch pad this weekend, connecting the launcher and payload together for liftoff Thursday on a $1.2 billion mission to create an atlas of the galaxy.
Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA/M. Pedoussaut Credit: ESA/M. Pedoussaut Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA/M. Pedoussaut Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin Credit: ESA/M. Pedoussaut Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG-S. Martin |
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