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Gaia sunshield deployment time lapse sequence

Date: 18 October 2013
Copyright: ESA

A time lapse sequence, at 7 times actual speed, showing the deployment of Gaia's sunshield during testing in the S1B integration building at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 10 October 2013.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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