October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
...myth of Atlantis is a set of two philosophical accounts of Plato (428-348 BC), the dialogues of Timaeus and Critias, which...out of the 1930s comic strip Flash Gordon rather than Plato’s imagination. The film Forbidden Planet also imagines the discovery...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
..., carried out jointly with CNES, the ESA CHEOPS mission is scheduled for launch in 2017 and ESA’s PLATO mission is planned for launch from 2022 onwards, both with the goal of searching for exoplanets. The...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... operations of ESA’s astronomy and fundamental physics missions including Herschel & Planck, Gaia, Lisa Pathfinder, Euclid and Plato.
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... to depend on the planets in Jupiter-like orbits in the same system (the upcoming NASA TESS and ESA PLATO missions will discover planets with the transit method, but they focus on nearby systems for more...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... operations of ESA’s astronomy and fundamental physics missions including Herschel & Planck, Gaia, Lisa Pathfinder, Euclid and Plato.
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
..., Solar Orbiter, Juice and Euclid. It will also support future ESA deep-space missions such as Hera, PLATO and Comet Interceptor. “Bringing the agency to fruition was a complex proposition as there were many government ministries...
