March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... imager that would later become the first product on which the SAC/ISIS collaboration is built. The Gaia 3U satellite architecture. Gaia 3U with Gecko imager Combining the heritage of the ISIS 3U CubeSat and the successful in-flight validation...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
..., ESA officials revealed examples of the work already undertaken by ESA’s Gaia satellite, as the first batch of data was released to the astronomical community. Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying...
08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
... Milky way stars, became available three months ago and can be freely accessed. Data obtained by Gaia satellite is unique. Gaia has two telescopes that share the one metre wide focal plane. Because of a greater field of view...
02 May 2018
Astronomers spot fastest stars in the galaxy with Gaia
...Milky Way. Just last week, mission specialists behind ESA’s Gaia satellite announced the unveiling of information on over 1.6 billion stars...of astronomers have scoured the second iteration of the Gaia data and found some likely candidates. From seven ...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
... figure again for candidate exoplanets (I.e potential exoplanets whose status has yet to be confirmed). Now though, the Gaia satellite has upped the stakes in the mission to find habitable worlds, as it has been able to measure the mass...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
...dedicated to the deployment of the Galileo constellation, the Earth observation satellites Sentinel (European Union, ESA) and Pleiades (CNES), as well as the scientific Gaia satellite (ESA) in 2013. So far, commercial Soyuz missions have been focused...
