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The Hipparcos satellite, due to be launched aboard Ariane on 27 July, aims to provide an enormous advance in the quality and quantity of stellar astrometric data.
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Perryman, M. Hipparcos: astrometry from space. Nature 340, 111–116 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/340111a0
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