Soyuz-STB/Fregat-MT launched ESA's Gaia astrometry observatory from Kourou toward the Sun-Earth L2 point, beginning a mission to map the precise positions, distances and motions of over a billion stars in the Milky Way.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L2
- Sun-Earth L2
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 5 Soyuz STB Fregat-MT flights
- Date and time
- 19 December 2013, 09:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz STB Fregat-MT
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2013-074
- Launches in 2013
- 77th of 81
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