The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025

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Selection of some interesting news from past years full overview of news per year For operational phase can be found here: 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Full overview of news per year for study phase / building of the spacecraft / launch can be found here: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2023-10-13 Gaia Focused Product Release is out! On 10 October 2023 Gaia published its Focused Product Release. On the overview page, links to all relevant information related to this release are provided. The documentation for this release is covered mostly by the Gaia Focused Product Release papers, for which links are available from the Gaia FPR papers page. The data release documentation is complementary to the papers and is available as PDF and through our webpages. Please be aware of a few known issues published for the solar system objects. The data is available from the Gaia Archive and our partner data centres. Full overview of the data products and their applications is given in our Gaia FPR stories. One story per data product has been published. A press release was prepared by ESA Communications and is available from this webpage. More press releases were written by Gaia DPAC institutes, these press releases are available from the Gaia FPR events page. On 10 October and the few days following the release, several events were organized across Europe and in Brazil. Some of these events were recorded, and the recordings have been made available from our events page. 2023-08-28 Gaia DPAC Solar System Objects team honoured by the "Asteroid Comet Meteorites" Science Organization Committee On 21 June 2023, the Asteroid Comet Meteorites SOC honoured the collaborators of the Solar System Objects (SSO) team of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium. They did so with asteroid nominations, naming 4 asteroids after members of the Gaia DPAC SSO team. (30264) Galluccio (32607) Portell (33437) Ordenovic (35623) Pedrodavid...