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#12: Gaia Flight Model Testing Completed
The final test campaigns for the Gaia Flight Model spacecraft have been completed, paving the way for shipment to the launch site.
Published: 25 June 2013
#11: Gaia Flight Model Mass Properties Testing
The Gaia Spacecraft Flight Model has successfully completed its mass properties test campaign.
Published: 17 June 2013
#10: Gaia Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing
The Gaia Spacecraft Flight Model has successfully completed the electromagnetic compatibility test campaigns at the facilities of Intespace in Toulouse, France.
Published: 31 May 2013
#09: Gaia Flight Model Payload Data Handling Unit Delivered and Integrated
The Gaia Flight Model Payload Data Handling Unit has been delivered and integrated into the Gaia Service Module. Its arrival allowed extensive end-to-end testing of the spacecraft systems to be performed.
Published: 23 May 2013
#08: Gaia Flight Model Payload Module thermal testing completed
Thermal testing of the Gaia flight model payload module was completed at Centre Spatial de Liège. The payload module was then returned to Astrium Toulouse for integration with the service module.
Published: 20 February 2013
#07: Gaia launcher separation test and Payload Module acceptance vibration tests completed
Testing of the separation of the Gaia Service Module from its Launch Vehicle Adapter has been completed, as have the acceptance vibration tests on the Payload Module.
Published: 29 October 2012
#06: Gaia Payload Module integration completed
Integration of the Flight Model of the Gaia Payload Module has been completed. It has undergone acceptance vibration testing; thermal balance and thermal vacuum testing will be carried out towards the end of this year.
Published: 17 September 2012
#05: Gaia Service Module Thermal Balance/Thermal Vacuum testing completed
The Protoflight Model of the Gaia Service Module has successfully completed thermal balance and thermal vacuum testing in the SIMLES chamber at Intespace Toulouse.
Published: 10 September 2012
#04: Gaia Phased Array Antenna delivered and integrated
The phased array antenna that Gaia will use to send its science data to Earth has been delivered and integrated onto the Service Module.
Published: 6 July 2012
#03: Gaia Basic Angle Monitor delivered for integration
The protoflight models of Gaia's two Basic Angle Monitor (BAM) Opto-Mechanical Assembly (OMA) bars have been delivered to the spacecraft Prime Contractor and are being prepared for integration into the Gaia Payload Module.
Published: 11 April 2012
#02: Gaia sunshield deployment test
Deployment testing of the Gaia Flight Model Deployable Sunshield Assembly has been successfully completed in preparation for the spacecraft mechanical test campaign.
Published: 2 December 2011
#01: Payload Module vibration testing completed
This is the first entry in the Gaia Test Campaign Journal, a series of articles covering the main events during the integration and testing of the Structural Model (SM) and the Proto-Flight Model (PFM) of the Gaia spacecraft. The journal is expected to run until the completion of PFM testing; shortly after this, the Gaia Launch Campaign Journal will begin.
Published: 23 August 2011
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