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2024-05-24 ESA Science Newsletter

Interested in ESA's science missions? How they come to be? What big science questions they hope to answer? We are launching the ESA Science newsletter, serving the scientific community with programmatic and technical news. Info and subscribe: https://cosmos.esa.int/web/scinews.

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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Upcoming Events

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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