The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch in December 2026. It is an ESA M-class mission designed to find small planets around bright stars via the transit technique.
PLATO
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The PLATO Terrestrial Planet Hunter Telescope Will Begin Searching For Another Earth In 2026
Europe’s next big space mission – a telescope that will hunt for Earth-like rocky planets outside of our solar system – is on course to launch at the end of […]
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The PLATO Mission
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA’s M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large number of stars.
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Estimating The Number Of Planets That PLATO Can Detect
The PLATO mission is scheduled for launch in 2026. This study aims to estimate the number of exoplanets that PLATO can detect as a function of planetary size and period, […]
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Transit Least-squares Survey IV. Earth-like Transiting Planets Expected From The PLATO Mission
In its long-duration observation phase, the PLATO satellite will observe two non-overlapping fields for a total of 4 yr. The exact duration of each pointing will be determined 2 yr […]