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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end
The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...
European Gaia spacecraft is shut down, sent into 'retirement orbit' around the Sun
The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.
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European Space Agency Bids Farewell to Gaia Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) has said goodbye to Gaia, its "billion star surveyor." After nearly 11 years of celestial ...
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Scientists Tried to Kill Spacecraft But It Was So Tough That It Refused to Die
While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.
European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill
The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...
ESA says goodbye to Gaia, but its work is far from finished
The ESA has finally shut down Gaia, its mind-blowing space mission to map the Milky Way. Despite its retirement, Gaia is far ...
It gave us the best map of the Milky Way. Now the Gaia spacecraft is orbiting into retirement
Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...
Saying farewell to Gaia, as the Milky Way-mapping space telescope mission ends
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
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So long, Gaia: Europe officially retires prolific star-mapping space telescope
In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...
Europe’s space agency retires Gaia, the cartographer of the cosmos: Its mission & significance
Gaia has transformed the way the Milky Way galaxy is viewed. Its data allowed scientists to recreate not just a 3D map of the ...
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European Gaia spacecraft is shut down, sent into 'retirement orbit' around the Sun
The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. The work to analyze the data continues. A control team at the ESA's European Space ...