Run 1000 of the Initial Data Treatment system
Figure 1. IDT web-based front-end tool showing the 1000th IDT run. See here the animation about how the monitoring system behaves during a few hours of the mission. [Edited] We are proud ESA chose this Figure 1 as image of the week, as you can see at http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20160610 Yesterday, June 9th 2016, almost two years after the start of Gaia’s nominal operations, the Initial Data Treatment system (IDT) finished its 1000th run – a remarkable milestone for this critical system in charge of the daily data processing in the Gaia Data Processing and...
read more“Catalunya busca un projecte aeroespacial de país” (Valor afegit, TV3, 25 may 2016)
TV show: Valor afegit (TV3) First emission date: 25 May 2016 Watch here the whole programme (the piece about aerospace starts at 17’45”) or at their web page http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/valor-afegit/valor-afegit-25052016/video/5603029/
read moreSixteen scientists from UB among the two hundred members of the Gaia DPAC meeting in Leiden, to review the current status of preparations for Gaia catalogue release next summer.
From 16 to 20 November 2015, about two hundred members of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) are meeting in Leiden, The Netherlands, to review the current status of preparations for future catalogue releases from ESA’s billion star surveyor mission. Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia satellite started routine scientific operations on 25 July 2014. As it scans the sky from its location at the L2 Lagrange point, Gaia records the position, brightness, and colours of any object brighter than 20th magnitude that crosses its field of view. During its five-year...
read moreGaiaverse is an outreach portal created by UB and CSUC where you can find all about Gaia in 11 languages.
Gaiaverse is a dissemination portal on the ESA Gaia’s mission developed within the GENIUS project, a European project funded by the European Commission to boost the impact of the next European breakthrough in astrophysics, the Gaia astrometric mission. GENIUS aims at becoming a hub of Gaia’s spreading knowledge by collecting all kind of divulgation materials such as presentations, videos, posters, brochures, tools, news… which are all available through this portal, Gaiaverse.
read moreCelebrity comet spotted among Gaia’s stars (ESA, 03 Nov 15)
Media: ESA (European Space Agency) Title: Celebrity comet spotted among Gaia’s stars Publication date: 3 November 2015 A local cosmic celebrity was recently pictured among the multitude of stars and Solar System bodies surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, currently accompanied by another ESA spacecraft, Rosetta. While scanning the sky to map the positions and motions of a billion stars in our Galaxy, Gaia also picks up objects much closer to home, such as asteroids and comets in the Solar System. With its ability to detect faint and moving objects, Gaia has...
read more“La missió Gaia celebra el seu primer any d’observacions científiques” (ESA, 28 Aug 2015)
Media: ESA (European Space Agency) Title: “La missió Gaia celebra el seu primer any d’observacions científiques” Webpage: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_s_first_year_of_scientific_observations Publication date: 25 August 2015 Recerca El passat 21 d’agost, Gaia, el satèl·lit de l’Agència Espacial Europea (ESA), va completar el seu primer any d’observacions científiques. Després del seu llançament el 19 de desembre de 2013 i un període de sis mesos en òrbita, el satèl·lit va començar la seva rutina d’operacions científiques el 25 de juliol de 2014....
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