Gaia project

Artist's impression of the Gaia satellite (Copyright ESA, ATG medialab, ESO/S Brunier)

Assembly of the Gaia CCD array - flight model (Copyright Astrium)

Gaia auto collimating flat mirror (Copyright TNO / Leo Ploeg)

UV inspection of the flight model of the Gaia wave front sensors - WFS (Copyright TNO / Fred Kamphues)

Payload module (PLM) during integration (Copyright Astrium SAS)

Basic Angle Monitoring opto-mechanical assembly (BAM OMA) flight mirrors (Copyright TNO/Fred Kamphues)

Payload module (PLM) with integrated mirrors (Copyright Astrium)

Torus segment proof testing (Copyright BOOSTEC Industries, France)

Thermal tent structure fit check (Copyright EADS Astrium)

Basic Angle Monitoring opto-mechanical assembly - BAM OMA (Copyright TNO/Fred Kamphues)

Large-size SLC mirror - LSM (Copyright EADS Astrium SAS (France), Sagem (France))

Radial-velocity spectrometer (RVS) grating (Copyright Fraunhofer Institut für Optik und Feinmechanik (IOF), Germany)