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2023-05-24 Downtime of some Gaia and ESA IT services

Today, due to maintenance, the following services are temporarily unavailable or affected:

  • Gaia mailing will experience a delay which can go up to a few hours.
  • Gaia Jira, Gaia wiki, Gaia CrushFTP, Gaia Helpdesk as well as Gaia Nexus are unavailable between 11:00 and 13:00
  • Authentication with CAS can be affected today (especially before 13:00) as well.

Gaia mission status

Technology testing concluded and spacecraft passivated
3827 days of science operations concluded
141,038 GB of science data gathered

267,336,261,480 transits observed

Several data sets were released
Gaia Data Release 4 in preparation

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2-6 March 2026
Astro Big Data School
Ghent, Belgium
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1 - 5 June 2026
Galactic bars, bulges and disks
Lipari Island, Italy
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