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| Greek government award to ATHINOGAIA |
| A Greek program, ATHINOGAIA, which will support the participation of a Greek team in various Gaia working groups has been awarded a grant of 250,000 Euro from the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology. |
| Date: 21 Oct 2004 |
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| Gaia postdoctoral position at IoA, Cambridge |
| In the United Kingdom two posts have been created, for a period of three years, to start developing the data processing pipeline software for the photometric and radial velocity data from Gaia. |
| Date: 18 Oct 2004 |
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| Report on Gaia Symposium |
| Between 4-7 October, a major symposium dedicated to the scientific
aspects of the Gaia mission was held at the Observatoire de Paris,
Meudon, France, as 'Les Rencontres de l'Observatoire 2004'. Attended
by 240 delegates, the four-day meeting was an opportunity to present
the current status of the Gaia mission to the interested scientific
community, and to hear about the results of investigations carried out
in the various areas of the mission over the last four years. |
| Date: 13 Oct 2004 |
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| Gaia Symposium opens at Observatoire de Paris |
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| Date: 04 Oct 2004 |
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| NWO grant awarded for Gaia photometric analysis study |
| Recognising the challenge posed by the Gaia data analysis, the Netherlands organisation for scientific research (NWO) has awarded a grant of 364,000 Euro in support of preparations for Gaia photometric data analysis. |
| Date: 19 Aug 2004 |
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| Final presentation of the RVS instrument study |
| The first phase of the RVS instrument design has come to an end with the final presentation of the work performed to date by the RVS Consortium. |
| Date: 31 Mar 2004 |
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| Gaia proceeds to Phase B1 |
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| Date: 05 Mar 2004 |
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| Status report for Gaia in 2003 published |
| Gaia in 2003, a status report prepared by the Gaia Project Scientist, summarises the status of the Gaia project at the end of 2003, describes the progress achieved in 2003, and summarises the major ongoing and planned activities.
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| Date: 24 Feb 2004 |
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| Testing the high stability optics bench |
| Testing the high stability optics bench |
| Date: 17 Nov 2003 |
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| Doctoral grant at University of Barcelona |
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| Date: 12 Nov 2003 |
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| First e2v CCDs for Gaia |
| The first batch of CCD wafers for Gaia's Astro (AF) instrument has recently been completed at the UK headquarters of e2v technologies in Chelmsford. |
| Date: 29 Sep 2003 |
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| Results from Gaia's planet detection tests |
| Members of the Planetary Systems Working Group have reported the first results of their tests of Gaia's exoplanet detection capabilities, using simulated data matching the results expected from the real mission.
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| Date: 15 Sep 2003 |
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| e2v sensors form the largest focal plane CCD mosaic in the world |
| Custom-built CCDs, designed and manufactured by Essex-based e2v technologies, have recently captured their first images through Megacam, the wide field camera mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). |
| Date: 08 Apr 2003 |
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| Who knows how many stars there are? |
| It must be one of the oldest questions. When you gaze at the sky, you marvel at its immensity. Have you ever, at some stage of your life, looked up into the night sky and wondered just how many stars there are in space? The question has fascinated scientists as well as philosophers, musicians, and dreamers through the ages. |
| Date: 23 Feb 2003 |
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| When more data can mean more fun |
| Tomorrow's spacecraft will be capable of generating more data than they can transmit to Earth. In some cases, this could be more data than can even be comfortably handled by today's computational methods. What benefits are there for us in this flood of data? |
| Date: 03 Dec 2002 |
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| When more data can mean more fun |
| Tomorrow's spacecraft will be capable of generating more data than they can transmit to Earth. In some cases, this could be more data than can even be comfortably handled by today's computational methods. What benefits are there for us in this flood of data? |
| Date: 03 Dec 2002 |
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| ESA to look for the missing link in gravity |
| Although you can never be certain of predicting future developments in science, there is a good chance of a fundamental breakthrough in physics soon. With a series of unique experiments and missions designed to test our understanding of gravity, the European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to get to the very bottom of it. |
| Date: 11 Sep 2002 |
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| ESA to look for the missing link in gravity |
| Although you can never be certain of predicting future developments in science, there is a good chance of a fundamental breakthrough in physics soon. With a series of unique experiments and missions designed to test our understanding of gravity, the European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to get to the very bottom of it. |
| Date: 11 Sep 2002 |
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| ESA paves the way for an avalanche of new extrasolar planet discoveries |
| An interview with Didier Queloz, one of the world's most successful planet hunters.
The last five days have witnessed the unprecedented announcement of 25 new planet discoveries. These discoveries are split almost evenly between European and American astronomers. Didier Queloz and his colleagues at the Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland, have found a dozen of the new planets. Their discoveries include the most tantalising one yet: a planet that closely resembles Jupiter in our own Solar System. The find brings astronomers another step closer to detecting an Earth-like world. |
| Date: 18 Jun 2002 |
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| European Space Agency to probe asteroid blind spot |
| In the past five weeks two asteroids have passed close by Earth, at distances of 1.2 and 3 times the distance to the Moon. Another asteroid has recently been shown to have a 1 in 300 chance of colliding with Earth in 2880. Monitoring known asteroids allows astronomers to predict which may collide with Earth. But that is only true for the asteroids we know of. What about those that lie in the asteroid blind spot between the Sun and Earth? The European Space Agency is studying ways in which its missions can assist in monitoring these unseen but potentially hazardous asteroids. |
| Date: 12 Apr 2002 |
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