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Gaia spacecraft operations engineerPhys Org
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ESA 's Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way with extreme precision.
In April , a tiny particle smaller than a grain of sand struck Gaia at high speed and at just the wrong angle, damaging the spacecraft's protective cover.
In May , the electronics controlling one of these CCDs failed— Gaia 's first CCD issue in more than 10 years in space.
Without this sensor to validate its observations, Gaia began to register thousands of false detections.
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