Image: Modeling Gaia's avionics on the ground
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 05:00
in Astronomy & Space
A full-size working model of Gaia's internal systems arrived in Germany this week. The Avionics Model is mounted in a circular set-up representing the systems on the actual satellite, now orbiting the Sun–Earth L2 point about 500 000 km from Earth.