Gaia Data Release set for 14th September, 2016!

The Gaia mission, launched on 19 December 2013, and in routine science operations since 25 July 2014, will release the first mission data on 14 September 2016.

This release will include the positions and brightness for about one billion stars using observations taken between 25 July 2014 and 16 September 2015.

The announcement of the date for this first Gaia data release was made today by Anthony Brown, Chair of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) Executive, during the GREAT Network Science Symposium at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science held in Athens, Greece, from 4-8 July 2016.

Read more on ESA’s Gaia website!