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The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft was recently slammed by a micrometeoroid and a solar storm.
The spacecraft's goal is to create a 3D map of the individual stars in the Milky Way.
In April , a meteoroid smaller than a grain of sand hit Gaia and damaged the protective shield surrounding its instrumentation.
In May , for unknown reasons, another piece of electronics failed, resulting in thousands of false detections.
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