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ESA Gaia space mission gets Caché
William Atkins
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 22:23
The European Space Agency announced that the InterSystems Caché high-performance object database will be used to support the scientific processing of its Gaia mission to map the Milky Way galaxy.
And, 'Each object will be observed an average of 70 times during a five-year period, precisely charting their positions, distances, movements and changes in brightness. Gaia is expected to discover hundreds of thousands of new objects, such as extra-solar planets and failed stars known as brown dwarfs.'
Further, 'Within our own solar system, Gaia will be able to identify hundreds of thousands of asteroids.'
The ESA Gaia mission is an unmanned space project whose goal is to chart a three-dimensional map of our Milky Way galaxy. Specifically, it will reveal the composition, formation and evolution of the Milky Way.
The ESA state, 'Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group. This amounts to about 1 per cent of the Galactic stellar population.' [ESA]
InterSystems Corporation, founded in 1978, is a global software technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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