Gaia Calendar
Information about Gaia events, conferences and DPAC meetings                                                   Gaia events calendar archive

 

Conferences, Workshops & Symposia

For more conferences and symposia, see: International Astronomy Meetings

 

For MW-Gaia workshops, see MW-Gaia.org.

Date Conference/Symposium Place Link
23 - 27 June 2025 European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Cork, Ireland More info
4 - 8 August 2025 Winding, Unwinding and Rewinding the Gaia Phase Spiral Leiden, Netherlands More info
24 - 30 August 2025 Binary stars in a new era
Lijiang, China
 More info
26 - 29 August 2025

Multiplicity in Young Stars

 Copenhagen, Denmark More info
1 - 5 September 2025

Bridging scales: star clusters and their host galaxies from the Local to the high-z Universe

 Matera, Italy More info
8 - 12 September 2025

ASTRODAT: AstroStatistics and Research-Oriented Data Analysis

 Durham, United Kingdom More info
8 - 12 September 2025

IV Regional Astronomical Summer School "Astronomy and Data Science" (4RASS)

 Byurakan, Armenia More info
15 - 19 September 2025 Stellar Origins 2025 Vienna, Austria More info
15 - 19 September 2025

International Symposium "Astronomical Surveys and Big Data 3" (ASBD-3)

 Byurakan, Armenia More info
29 September - 3 October 2025 More info

 

 

Internal Gaia Calendar (DPAC)

Please note: Attendance to these meetings is restricted to DPAC members and invited guests.

Only members who have signed in to the Gaia Cosmos site will be able to access the links below.
Previous Meetings Archive
Date Title Place Local Organiser Link
31 March - 4 April 2025 8th DPAC Consortium Meeting Cambridge    
2026 9th DPAC Consortium Meeting Geneva    

 

 

Important dates of Gaia

 
Date Event Place Link
12 October 1993 Proposal for the Gaia mission - More info
11-12 October 2000 Selection of the Gaia mission by ESA - More info
9 February 2006 Adoption of the Gaia mission by ESA    
15 June 2006 Gaia DPAC starts activities - More info / More info
7 June 2007 ESA SPC approves DPAC proposal for Gaia data processing - More info
19 December 2013 09:12 UTC Gaia launch Kourou More info
25 July 2014 Start of routine operations - More info
14 September 2016 Gaia Data Release 1 - More info
25 April 2018 Gaia Data Release 2 - More info
16 July 2019 Whitehead Eclipse Avoidance Manoeuvre marks the end of nominal mission - More info
17 July 2019 First day of mission extension - More info
3 December 2020 Early Gaia Data Release 3 - More info
13 June 2022 Gaia Data Release 3 - More info
10 October 2023 Focused Product Release - More info
19 December 2023 Gaia's launch anniversary - 10 years in space L2 More info
25 July 2024 Gaia 10 years of science operations - More info
15 January 2025 Gaia end of observations L2 More info
15 January 2025 Start of technology testing - More info
15 January 2025 Gaia spacecraft follow-up campaign - More info
27 March 2025 Gaia spacecraft passivation - More info
1 July 2025 Gaia moves into post-operations - -
~2026 Gaia Data Release 4 - More info
~2030 Gaia Data Release 5 - More info