Gaia Space Observatory
The Gaia space-observatory family represents ESA's Astrium-built astrometry spacecraft, which surveyed the sky from a Lissajous orbit around Sun-Earth L2 and ended spacecraft operations in a heliocentric retirement orbit in 2025.
Identity
- Aliases
- Gaia spacecraftESA billion-star surveyorGlobal Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics
- Family Name
- Gaia
- Full Name
- Gaia Space Observatory
- Reusability
- expendable
- Slug
- gaia-space-observatory
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- The Gaia space-observatory family represents ESA's Astrium-built astrometry spacecraft, which surveyed the sky from a Lissajous orbit around Sun-Earth L2 and ended spacecraft operations in a heliocentric retirement orbit in 2025.
- First Flight Year
- 2,013
- Last Flight Year
- 2,025
- Manufacturer Id
- jd76jj0anf25d6ncam13dcj1v58aqyy7
- Operator Id
- vh76e0gh65et98bds1b49cvt8h89n8e5
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Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- 7/17/2026, 2:59:26 AM
- Updated Time
- 7/17/2026, 2:59:26 AM