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.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Gaia spacecraftESA billion-star surveyorGlobal Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics
- Family Name
- Gaia
- Full Name
- Gaia Space Observatory
- Roles
- observatoryresearch
- 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
- Operator
- Spacecraft Specs
- Launch Mass Kg
- 2,030
- Reusability
- expendable
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- Creation Time
- July 17, 2026 at 02:59:26 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 11:51:15 UTC
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