Gaia DR2 presentation at ILA Berlin

Media representatives are invited to a briefing on the second data release of ESA’s Gaia mission, an astrometry mission to map more than one billion stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

The media briefing is being organised by ESA at the ILA Berlin Air and Space Show in Germany, on Wednesday 25 April 2018, 11:00–12:15 CEST. The show opens at 10:00 CEST.

Programme

11:00
Johann-Dietrich Wörner, ESA Director General

11:15
Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director of Earth Observation

11:20
Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science

11:30
Anthony Brown, Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, Leiden University

11:45
Antonella Vallenari, Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Astronomical Observatory of Padua

12:00
Question and answer session, and opening of the Gaia Archive

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