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Soyuz STB/Fregat-MT | Gaia
ArianespaceSoyuz Launch Complex — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Gaia
- Type
- Astrophysics
- Target orbit
- Sun-Earth L2 (L2)
Gaia's ambitious mission is to chart a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, in process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of our galaxy.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Soyuz STB Fregat-MT
- Family
- Soyuz
- Variant
- Fregat-MT
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- FRA
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launch site
- Pad
- Soyuz Launch Complex
- Location
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- GUF
- Timezone
- America/Cayenne
- Coordinates
- 5.3019, -52.8346