This presentation aims to provide technological and practical lessons we learned from Gaia. We will discuss insights from the data processing, and (systematic) effects of the instrument itself, as well as lessons we learned from processing the necessary auxiliary data like time-transformations (LATT, HATT) and orbital processing and analysis. Furthermore, we will discuss some aspects of what...
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...