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Scientists Tried to Kill Spacecraft But It Was So Tough That It Refused to Die

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Scientists tried to kill the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.

The space observatory was designed to withstand failures such as radiation storms, micrometeorite impacts or a loss of communication with Earth .

After over a decade, it reached its predetermined retirement age earlier this month .

Gaia has helped astronomers create an enormous map of the stars and even moons and exoplanets.

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