Astronomy Archives User Group Meeting 24 February 2026

ESTEC (Room Db134 + WEBEX)

Agenda

Tuesday 24th February, 09:45 - 16:30 Presentations
09:45-10:10 Introduction and welcome (D. Baines, N. Webb, G. de Marchi)  
10:10-10:15 Adoption of the agenda (All)  
10:15-10:30 Review of actions  
10:30-11:00 Archival Research Visitor Programme status (G. de Marchi)  
11:00-11:15 Break  
11:15-12:00 Einstein Probe Science Archive within the Astronomy Multimission Archive (D. Baines)  
12:00-13:00 Lunch

 
13:00-14:00 ESDC User Statistics Analysis (B. Merin)  
14:00-14:30 ESA Astronomy Archives session at EAS 2025 and plans for EAS 2026 (G. de Marchi)  
14:30-14:45 Break  
14:45-15:15 ESASky updates (D. Baines)  
15:15-15:20 Date and time of next meeting (All)  
15:20-15:30 AOB  
15:30-16:30 Closed session  
16:30 Wrap up  

 

Meeting Location

The meeting will take place at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), in room Db134. You will need to go to security when you arrive to pick up your visitor badge and show your National ID or passport.

Travel to ESTEC

There are shuttle buses from a number of Noordwijk hotels in the mornings to ESTEC and return shuttle buses in the afternoons. Details can be found here: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/Transport_to_and_from_ESTEC

There are shuttle buses from Schipol airport to ESTEC at 09:00 and 10:00 in the morning. If you arrive before or after these times we recommend prebooking a taxi from Schipol to ESTEC with Taxi Brouwer, who will wait for you at arrivals. You can make your reservations and payments online via a dedicated ESTEC page: https://www.taxibrouwer.nl/en/estec/.

Further details on travelling to ESTEC, including a map of the site, can be found here: https://learninghub.esa.int/content/esaestec-practical-guide

Hotels

ESTEC have special rates with a number of the hotels in Noordwijk that have the shuttle bus directly to ESTEC. Please inquire with the hotels directly. The list of Noordwijk Hotels with shuttle bus can be found here.