Completed · Success
ESA's Gaia determined the positions of nearly two billion objects to create a 3D map of the Milky Way from a Lissajous-type orbit around L2.
- Destinations
No celestial-body destination recorded; this extended-scope observatory studies a non-body scientific domain.
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-Fregat
- Launch site
- Not recorded
- Countries
- International
- Mission types
- Observatory
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Gaia · Spacecraft
Trajectory record
Trajectory dataset not yet available
No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 6, 2026
- Gaia factsheet - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- GCAT: General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (lunar and planetary catalog), J. McDowell — OTHEROther · Supports: mission claims
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context