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.
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... already been collected for another high-profile mission. Perhaps data from other missions such as the PLATO satellite, which is expected to obtain stellar photometric light curves for 1,000,000 stars, could also be used...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
... Group – OHB System AG – also signed a contract with ESA to be the agencies industrial principal contractor for its PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars) mission. The contract, worth 288 million euros ($331 million), covers...
