This will cover the status of the GaiaNIR mission, a candidate for the ESA Voyage 2050 L5 launch slot.
[JASMINE][1] is a unique candidate for the competitive M-class Satellite Mission No. 3 at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of JAXA, whose launch is targeted for 2032. The mission has two science goals: (1) to explore the formation and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy, and (2) to search for Earth-like exoplanets within the habitable zone. To achieve these goals, we will...
I will discuss lessons learned from Gaia as an astrophysics survey mission, emphasizing the need to complement the high accuracy astrometry with a rich set of astrophysical information. Illustrations from high impact science with Gaia will be used to make the point.
