Gaia

Gaia — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Gaia in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

ESA’s star surveyor measured the precise positions of nearly two billion stars to build the richest 3D map of the Milky Way ever made, before retiring to a graveyard orbit.

Launched
19 Dec 2013
Status
Retired 2025 — charted two billion stars

Explore Gaia in 3D

Explore Gaia along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.

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