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Satellite Hipparcos

author: ESA/Novapix

reference: e-sou10-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 22 * 18 cm

The satellite HIPPARCOS, developed by the European Space Agency was launched from Kourou in French Guiana in August 1989. It is the first ever `astrometric' satellite, designed to measure very accurately the angular positions of about 120,000 stars and the way these positions change with time.

Keywords for this photo:

1989 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - ASTROMETRY - ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMY - DISTANCE - HIPPARCOS - MEASURE - SPACE - STAR - TEST -