Speaker
Description
Edmund was the Gaia payload operations engineer at ESOC from before launch and throughout the flying mission, he has over 30 years of experience working with ESA satellites. In this presentation Edmund will introduce the operations concept for the payload and the successes and difficulties that were encountered. At the end of the Gaia operations, there were several weeks of technological testing to provide further information about the behaviour of the spacecraft by using it outside of its normal operating parameters. These tests were intended to provide information to help design future missions, such as LISA, or investigate Gaia problems, such as the basic angle variation. Although the analyses of these tests are still ongoing, the early results are promising and a selection will be presented.
