ESA telescope launches warning meteors fall

On December 19, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Gaia space telescope designed to make a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way and tracked the location of billions of stars in it, helping the scene. Early warning of meteorites falling on Earth.

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Gaia telescope has been launched thanks to the Soyuz-STB-Fregat rocket rocket from the Guyana space center of France. According to the initial information, the launch took place successfully and the functions of the Gaia telescope worked well.

Gaia, worth up to 740 million euros ($ 1.02 billion), is the most advanced and advanced space telescope that ESA manufactures. It has an orbital observation function between the Earth and the Sun, which is a "blind" area for terrestrial observatories, so that early detection of meteorites and other Asteroids are likely to fall to Earth.

Gaia Space Telescope

ESA plans to launch the telescope after the meteorite explosion in the sky of Cheliabinsk (Russia) in February this year.

The meteorite, about 15 meters in diameter, weighs approximately 11,000 tons, pierced the Earth's atmosphere and exploded at an altitude of 19-24km above the sky of Cheliabinsk and many nearby cities of Russia's Ural Mountains , the meteorite rain has injured 1,200 people.

The explosion has questioned why modern astronomical astronomical observatories, powerful missile defense radar systems have not detected meteorites.

According to the scientific world, the cause is the "blind" ranges for observatories due to the obstruction of the Earth's curve.

A telescope observing from space will solve the above limitation and increase the warning ability.