European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are revealing. Since the beginning of the conquest of space in the 1950s, some 6,890 rockets have been launched (not counting failures), and 21,320 ...

A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center powered down all of Gaia's subsystems and sent it into a "retirement orbit" around the Sun. "Gaia's extensive data releases are a ...

The spacecraft's control team at the European Space Operations Centre in Paris switched off Gaia's subsystems today (March 27) and sent the venerable craft into a safe "retirement orbit." ...

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

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 ...

The team at the European Space Operations Centre in the city of Darmstadt then shut down Gaia's instruments before corrupting its on-board software. Finally, they said their last goodbye ...