PLATO Mission

Its objective is to find and study a large number of extrasolar planetary systems, with emphasis on the properties of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone ...

The PLATO mission - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo - INAF

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. Its objective is to find and study ...

(PDF) The PLATO mission - ResearchGate

PLATO is a M-class mission in ... [Show full abstract] ESAs Cosmic Vision Programme 2015-2025. The international PLATO Consortium is lead by DLR (Prof. Heike ...

PLATO: Europe's Planet-Hunting Telescope - Space.com

The name is an acronym for "PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars." The overall goal of the mission is to figure out under what ...

PLATO mission gets green light for its next phase

ESA's PLATO mission, a space mission designed to study exoplanets and stellar oscillations, has been given green light to continue its ...

European Space Agency picks Plato planet-hunting mission - BBC

It is expected to cost Esa just over 600 million euros, although hardware contributions from member states will take this closer to a billion (£ ...

ESA exoplanet hunter PLATO: Mission, launch date, primary goal

ESA announced on January 14 that PLATO had passed a critical milestone review of the PLATO spacecraft and payload, allowing development on the ...

The PLATO mission - Plato - STESCI

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. PLATO was adopted by ESA (...)

Will PLATO Be The Mission To Finally Find Earth 2.0? - YouTube

The quest to find an Earth-sized planet around a Sun-like star continues. One of the telescopes that could achieve it is ESA's Plato mission ...

The PLATO mission - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

PLATO follows the successful CoRoT (CNES) and Kepler (NASA) missions, but aims to detect a sample of planetary systems with terrestrial planets orbiting well- ...

ESA's Plato mission selects first patch of sky to observe – Astronotes

The Science Working Team's recommendation was therefore that the first Plato field would be in the Southern Sky.

Green light for the latest developments of the PLATO mission

ESA's PLATO mission has been given the green light to continue its development after a successful critical review on January 11, 2022.

PLATO mission could detect tens of thousands of habitable planets

The European Space Agency will launch PLATO, an exoplanet-hunting mission that will investigate over 245000 stars for the discovery of ...

The PLATO mission: an investigation of planetary systems

The transit method. What are PLATO's objectives? Like other missions to detect exoplanets, PLATO uses the transit method: when a planet passes ( ...

Adoption of the PLATO mission by ESA - IRAP

Adoption of the PLATO mission by ESA ... The PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) planetary mission proposal aims to discover rocky planets around ...

Solar Array Subsystem for planet hunter PLATO - Beyond Gravity

Beyond Gravity will deliver the Sunshield Solar Array Subsystem for the European “planet-hunting” mission PLATO to satellite builder OHB.

IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission

We use the PLATO Solar-like Light curve Simulator (PSLS) to simulate light curves with transiting planets around bright (m V ≤ 11) Sun-like stars at a cadence ...

Thales Alenia Space on X: "ESA's PLATO Mission Offers Hard-Won ...

ESA's PLATO Mission Offers Hard-Won Lessons In Space Management https://t.co/LA4PNhSvc7 Focus on the "core team" [@esa @OHB_SE ...

PLATO's Mission To Discover Exoplanets Like Earth - Apple Podcasts

NASA's Exoplanet Archive currently lists over 5,700 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. And more discoveries will be on the way. PLATO, ...

PLATO mission could detect tens of thousands of habitable planets

The article contradicts itself later on with the true estimates from the study. The actual study says that PLATO could discover tens of ...