Outside Spaceport America’s hangar surrounded by the New ... sparks and whirling lights as he walks into the spaceport’s Gaia room. “This is the path the Future Astronauts (Virgin’s ...

March 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering. A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center ...

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy. On 27 March ...

But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab; ESO, via S. Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white ...

The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency (ESA) has now been powered down and sent into a “retirement orbit” around the sun — but data from the mission will continue to be released ...

"We will never forget Gaia, and Gaia will never forget us." Europe's star-mapping Gaia space observatory has entered its final orbit, after gathering valuable cosmic data for more than a decade.

The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, has been deactivated and placed in a "retirement orbit" around the sun after mapping nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to come.

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In December the government began work on a spaceport in Somalia ... a Chinese-Russian rival to America’s Artemis programme. Mr Erdogan has poured cash into the defence industry, even considering ...

The broadcasters — like Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — have for decades served to project American values around the world while sharing fact-based ...