Gaia, 03b Launch Delays Prompted by Common Component lssue

摘要

A defective digital timing unit that forced four commercial broadband satellites to be pulled from launch preparations in September has now had the same effect on the Gaia star-mapping satellite owned by the European Space Agency (ESA), European government and industry officials said. As was the case with the four satellites owned by startup operator O3b Networks, whose late-September launch aboard a Europeanized Soyuz rocket was scrubbed in the middle of the month, Gaia's planned Nov.