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News & Announcements

2012-05-04 Release of the new issue of the DPAC Newsletter
The DPAC Newsletter no. 16 is now available and there you will find information about the progress made in AGIS, the DPAC processing system or the Gaia teams at GEPI (France) or the Konkoly Observatory (Hungary). For more information, visit the following link.

2012-04-11 Basic Angle Monitor delivered for integration
The protoflight models of the two Basic Angle Monitor (BAM) Opto-Mechanical Assembly (OMA) bars have been delivered to the spacecraft Prime Contractor and are being prepared for integration into the Payload Module. For more information and pictures, visit the ESA Science & Technology web site.

2012-03-07 Vacancy notice: Gaia software developer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
The Institute of Astronomy at the KU Leuven has a vacancy for a software developer to work on the analysis of the variable stars that will be observed by Gaia. The deadline for applications is 20 March 2012. For more information, visit the following web page.

2012-02-22 Vacancy notice: Gaia position for an engineer/postdoc at the Observatory of Paris (Meudon)
GEPI / Observatory of Paris has a vacancy for a postdoc/engineer to work on the software conception and development for the processing of astronomical spectroscopic data. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2012. For more information, visit the following web page.

2012-02-03 Release of the new issue of the DPAC Newsletter
The DPAC Newsletter no. 15 is available from early this week and there you will find information about some DPAC participating institutes like the one in Slovenia, the alignment between the VLBI and Gaia frames or the modelling of the RVS background signal arising from point sources. For more information, visit the following link.

2012-01-31 Open vacancy for a Java software developer at ARI Heidelberg
ARI/ZAH has a vacancy for a Java software developer till end of 2013. The position starts early/mid 2012; the precise time can be negotiated. The successful applicant will work on the preparation of the scientific data processing for the Gaia astronomy mission of the European Space Agency ESA, due for launch in late 2013. More details can be found in the following link.

2012-01-31 Open vacancy for a Gaia-related postdoc at ARI Heidelberg
ARI/ZAH has a vacancy for a two- to three-year postdoctoral position to do Gaia-related research and to contribute to the Gaia mission preparation. The position starts early/mid 2012; the precise time can be negotiated. More details can be found in the following link.

2011-12-07 Sunshield deployment test successfully completed
Gaia has passed a critical test: the spacecraft sunshield has been deployed successfully. During October 2011, the Flight Model (FM) Deployable Sunshield Assembly (DSA) was delivered to Astrium and integrated with the FM Service Module and Thermal Tent and a mass-representative model of the payload module. Once integrated, the first deployment test of the DSA mounted on the spacecraft took place in Astrium on 21 October. This test demonstrated correctness of alignment, confirmed the deployment functionality and verified the flatness of the deployed DSA. For more information, visit the Science & Technology and ESA web pages.

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