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The Gaia mission will provide unprecedented stellar position and radial velocity measurements. This will be used to produce a three-dimensional map of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and beyond. The most prominent feature of the Gaia satellite is the high precision payload, which is fully developed by EADS Astrium SAS. The paper is devoted to the payload description. |
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Stars
Charge-coupled devices
Telescopes
Photometry
Spectroscopy
Staring arrays
