Media Archive

[2014][2013] [2012] [2011] [2010] [2009] [2008] [2007] [2006] [2005] [2004]

 

2014

30/06/2014 - [El País blog]
Raising Gaia, Europe's Brainchild

18/06/2014 - [BBC]
Europe's Gaia telescope grapples with stray light

01/04/2014 - [morgenweb]
In zwei Stunden zur Milchstraße und zurück

28/03/2014 - [SudOuest]
Des collégiens, la tête dans les étoiles

23/02/2014 - [Guardian]
Exploring the galaxy: the bigger picture

18/02/2014 - [RBB]
Gaia - Kartierung der Milchstraße

17/02/2014 - [RTVE]
El satélite Gaia, ubicado a 1,5 millones de km de la Tierra, está vigilado por una red de telescopios

06/02/2014 - [BBC]
Gaia 'billion-star surveyor' returns test image

06/02/2014 - [Der Spiegel]
Galaktische 3-D-Karte: Weltraumteleskop "Gaia" schickt erstes Sternenfoto

05/02/2014 - [Airbus DS]
Gaia sur la bonne voie!

15/01/2014 - [WAZ]
Wie weit sind die Sterne weg?

14/01/2014 - [WAZ]
Bochumer Planetarium mit neuer Show

08/01/2014 - [BBC North West]
BBC report about Gaia tracking and the Liverpool Telescope (The Gaia item starts at 21 minutes into the programme)

 

2013

   
30/12/2013  
[Sterne und Weltraum]

AstroViews 8: Gaia und die Vermessung der Galaxis

19/12/2013  

Collection of international news items about the Gaia launch

18/12/2013  
[SWR]  

Ulrich Bastian - Herr der Milchstraße

18/12/2013  
[Le Monde]  

Gaia, astromètre expert

18/12/2013  
[3Sat]  

Bauplan der Milchstraße

17/12/2013  
[Financial Times]  

Gaia satellite set for launch to map the star

16/12/2013  
[Phys.org]  

Gaia on a mission to map billions of stars in the Milky Way

04/12/2013  
[La Stampa]  

Con "Gaia" un catalogo stellare mai visto

03/12/2013  
[YLE]  

Europa kör förbi USA i rymden

18/11/2013  
[Euronews]

Gaia, the billion star surveyor

18/11/2013
[La Stampa]

Via Lattea, un miliardo di stelle per Gaia

16/11/2013  
[The Guardian]

Space probe Gaia searches for galaxy's dark energy

13/11/2013  
[Radio Regenbogen]

Ulrich Bastian in a radio interview about Gaia First Look (author Nils Birschmann). MP3 (2:07) available for download here.

24/10/2013  
[Euronews]  

Mapping the Milky Way

23/10/2013  
[EOS]  

Cartograaf van de Melkweg

21/10/2013  
[ARI press release]  

Heidelberg Astronomers Develop Software for the Gaia Satellite

02/10/2013  
[Nature]

Astrometry: Europe's star power

October 2014
[Zenit]  

Gaia: de volgende doorbraak in de sterrenkunde

23/09/2013  
[Journali]

GAIA. A missão espacial com mais ADN português está prestes a descolar

19/09/2013  
[Sky at Night Magazine]

Gaia's incredible mapping mission 

18/09/2013  
[Know How]

ESA's satellietfabriek aan de Noordzee

06/09/2013  
[RAGEMAG]

François Mignard : « Avec Gaia, toute l'astronomie va être bouleversée.

03/09/2013  
[El Pais]

Mil millones de estrellas en el mapa más preciso de la Vía Láctea

02/09/2013  
[Sterne im Weltraum]

Erbsenzähler im All

02/09/2013  
[Aviation Week]

ESA's Gaia Revolutionizing Space Mapping Precision

26/08/2013  
[SEN.com]

Galactic surveyor Gaia moves en route to launch pad

23/08/2013  
[Spaceflight Now]

Launch preparations begin for Gaia galaxy-mapper

21/08/2013  
[BBC News, Science]

Gaia: The 'impossible space mission' ready to fly

21/08/2013  
[BBC News, Science]

Gaia: The 'impossible space mission' ready to fly

11/08/2013  
[ARTE]

Satellit Gaia: Vermessung der Milchstrasse

08/08/2013  
[ESA French country desk]

Clin d'oeil à Gaia pour les Nuits des étoiles 2013 (Night of the stars 2013)

11/07/2013  
[The Engineer ]

Gaia: the cosmic camera that will chart a billion stars

01/07/2013  
[Der Donaldist, issue 144 ]

Beobachtung des Kleinplaneten 2730 Barks (Jordan/Altmann)

27/06/2013  
[Space News]

Europe's Star-mapping Gaia Satellite Finally Launch Pad-bound

17/05/2013  
[Sterne und Weltraum]

Projekt Gaia: Die sechsdimensionale Milchstraße (II)

12/04/2013  
[Sterne und Weltraum]

Projekt Gaia: Die sechsdimensionale Milchstraße (I)

07/03/2013  
[Spiegel online]

Standardkerzen: Astronomen verbessern All-Messlatte

07/03/2013  
[Nature]

An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent

07/03/2013  
[Nature]

An accurate distance to the nearest galaxy

06/03/2013  
[GMX.net]

Astronomen gelingt die bisher genauste Vermessung des Alls

19/02/2013  
[ESA web pages]

Russia asteroid impact: ESA update and assessment

15/02/2013  
[RTL.de]

Interview mit Esa-Experten: Meteoriten-Vorhersage so gut wie unmöglich

12/02/2013  
[Astronomy Now, February 2013 issue]

The year in space 2013

01/01/2013  
[IEEE spectrum]

Gaia's mission to map the Milky Way

 

2012

20/12/2012  
[Leidsch Dagblad]

Aarde loopt elke dag risico

21/11/2012  
[The Economist]

Hell and the heavens

29/10/2012  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Gaia launcher separation test and Payload Module acceptance vibration tests completed

24/10/2012  
[RTVE]

Gaia, el ojo de la Vía Láctea

24/10/2012  
[El Economista]

Europa prepara el mayor mapa galáctico y tridimensional de la historia

21/10/2012  
[El Periódico]

El censo de la Vía Láctea

23/10/2012  
[Europa Press]

La ESA ultima la misión Gaia, que mapeará la galaxia en 3D

23/10/2012  
[El Mundo]

El 'ojo gigante' que escudriñará la galaxia

23/10/2012  
[Antena3]

Gaia, un proyecto para catalogar millones de estrellas

08/10/2012  
[The Space Review]

Future exoplanet missions

27/09/2012  
[Leidsch Dagblad]

Grootste digitale camera aller tijden

20/09/2012  
[Universe Today]

Gaia Mission Passes Vital Tests

17/09/2012  
[ESA web pages]

Gaia's instruments installed and ready for testing

17/09/2012  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Gaia Payload Module Integration Completed

11/09/2012  
[Scientific American]

You Are Here: How Astronomical Surveys Are Pinpointing Our Place in the Cosmos

27/08/2012  
[Inquiries of Heaven (IAU 28th GA)]

Europe's next space-astrometry mission: Gaia

20/05/2012  
[COMRàdio]

Gaia: la missió europea que revolucionarà la Via Làctia

11/04/2012  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Basic Angle Monitor delivered for integration

12/03/2012  
[SWR]

Sterngucker - Von Heidelberg ins Weltall (available to be ordered on DVD)

06/03/2012  
[ESA web pages]

Nawkeurigheid van Gaia-satelliet waarborgen

 

2011

07/12/2011  
[ESA web pages]

Gaia spreads its wings

02/12/2011  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Gaia sunshield deployment test

10/10/2011  
[BBC]

A billion pixels for a billion stars

12/07/2011  
[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]

Größte Digitalkamera für das All

06/07/2011  
[ESA web pages]

Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way

06/07/2011  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Billion pixel Gaia camera starts to take shape

10/01/2011  
[ESA Space Engineering web pages]

Compression stops space missions from drowning in data

 

2010

2010  
[Astrium]

Gaia

21/11/2010  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Gaia's 'eyes' and 'brain' pass tests

08/11/2010  
[Ciel & Espace Radio]

Gaia, la carte du ciel en 3D

10/2010  
[Gabriella Bernardi, ISBN 978-88-95899-77-0]

Dov'è il cigno?

01/10/2010  
[Astronomía]

Gaia. Astrometría al segundo de arco

21/09/2010  
[Universitat de Barcelona web pages]

La missió Gaia, més a prop

13/09/2010  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Delivery of Gaia's primary mirrors

20/07/2010  
[BBC]

Gaia celestial mapper heads out of UK

29/06/2010  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Scientific community makes GREAT progress towards Gaia

23/02/2010  
[Observatori 2.0, Blog de comunicación científica, tecnológica, médica y ambiental]

A dormir, que surt el sol

20/01/2010  
[ESA International Year of Astronomy 2009 web pages]

Charting the Galaxy - from Hipparcos to Gaia

11/01/2010  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

First Gaia mirrors completed

 

2009

16/12/2009  
[ESA web pages]

Gaia to lift off from Europe's Spaceport on a Soyuz launcher

06/11/2009  
[i]

Missão Gaia. Vamos contar as estrelas do céu, agora a sério

28/10/2009  
[El País]

Europa hará un censo de estrellas con una precisión sin precedentes

30/09/2009  
[Astrium]

670kg structure completed for the capture of a billion celestial objects

03/09/2009  
[3Sat]

"Gaia" soll den Ursprung der Milchstraße finden - Satellit kartiert Millionen unterschiedlicher Sterne

28/07/2009  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

The Gaia torus is complete

22/07/2009  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Thermal testing of Gaia's Deployable Sunshield Assembly begins

14/03/2009  
[de Volkskrant]

Gezocht: broertjes en zusjes van de zon

24/02/2009  
[ESA Bulletin (February 2009 issue)]

ESA's 'billion-pixel' camera

13/02/2009  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Gaia video processing unit test model delivered

13/02/2009  
[Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)]

Qu'est-ce que Gaia?

09/02/2009  
[Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)]

A quoi sert Gaia?

09/02/2009  
[Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)]

Comment est né le projet?

09/02/2009  
[Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)]

Lancement de Gaia

02/2009  
[Ruimtevaart]

Picometer metrologie voor de Gaia missie

02/2009  
[Ruimtevaart]
Astronomen kijken reikhalzend uit naar Europese Gaia-missie

 

30/01/2009  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

State-of-the-art grating for Gaia

 

2008

05/12/2008  
[Science]

How Cold Is Cold Dark Matter?

06/11/2008  
[Le Stelle (October 2008 issue)]

Gaia, un "calibro" da sogno per la distanza...

06/2008  
[Mikroniek, Nr. 3, 2008]

Picometre metrology in space. Dutch contribution to the Gaia mission.

23/05/2008  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

NASA's WMAP poses for ESA's Gaia

01/03/2008  
[Sky & Telescope (March 2008 issue)]

Gaia's Mission to the Milky Way - (Star-Gauging Dream Machine)

 

2007

01/11/2007  
[ESA Bulletin (November 2007 issue)]

Pinpointing the Milky Way - The formidable Challenge of Processing Gaia's Data

 

2006

11/05/2006  
[ESA Space Science web site]

ESA selects prime contractor for Gaia astrometry mission

 

2005

13/06/2005  
[NewScientist.com news service]

Biggest space camera will map Milky Way

 

2004

11/10/2004  
[ESA Science and Technology web pages]

Report on the Gaia Symposium, 4-7 October 2004, Meudon (France)

04/10/2004  
[ESA Portal: Local information pages for France]

L'Univers en 3D : symposium Gaia à Paris

21/09/2004  
[ESA Space Science web site]

Keeping ESA's 'lady of space' cool

24/09/2004  
[La Libre Belgique newspaper]

Un milliard de pixels pour scruter le ciel

20/09/2004  
[Spiegel online]

Gigapixel-Kamera soll Sterne und Planeten jagen

09/09/2004  
[ESA Space Science website]

The billion-pixel camera

25/06/2004  
[ESA Space Science website]

Mapping the Galaxy, and watching our backyard

 

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