Goodnight, Gaia! ESA spacecraft shuts down after 12 years of Milky Way mapping
Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...
Farewell Gaia! ESA's Decade-Old Telescope Retires After Delivering Best Map Of The Milky Way
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...
Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
ESA's Gaia spacecraft 'gives best insight yet' of what the Milky Way looks
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...
Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
ESA spacecraft creating '3D map of the Milky Way' to be shut down
The ESA will conduct technology tests for several weeks after Gaia’s observations end, before the spacecraft leaves its orbit ...
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ESA prepares Milky Way mapping spacecraft for retirement
Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...
Out of fuel: groundbreaking Gaia space telescope completes research work
Europe's leading space telescope is running low on fuel and will collect data for the last time on Wednesday. The research ...
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Last Starlight For Ground-breaking Gaia
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion ...
Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Reaches Orbit In First Attempt; Jeff Bezos Shares Video
Loud cheers reverberated throughout the mission control room as the massive vehicle ascended to orbit leaving behind blue ...
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week
T he European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and able to scan the sky, so it has decided to nominally end science operations ...