Gaia has arrived in French Guiana

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ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, departed yesterday evening from Toulouse and arrived early this morning in French Guiana. Gaia will be launched later this year from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou on a five-year mission to map the stars of the Milky Way with unprecedented precision.

via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_has_arrived_in_French_Guiana