Gaia Space Telescope team battles 'stray light' problems at start of mission
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
Europe's powerful Milky Way mapper is facing some problems as controllers ready the Gaia telescope for operations. It turns out that there is "stray light" bleeding into the telescope, which will affect how well it can see the stars around it. Also, the telescope optics are also not transmitting as efficiently as the design predicted.