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...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... of three missions from ESA that are dedicated to exoplanet science,” Isaak said. Those other missions include Plato, that is aimed at studying terrestrial planets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars, and Ariel. Scheduled...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... as from NASA's James Web Space Telescope, the LUVIOR space observatory and the European Space Agency's PLATO space telescope when they become operational. "With the next space telescopes coming up, we will get more...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... way for our future exoplanet missions, from the international James Webb Telescope to ESA’s very own Plato and Ariel satellites, keeping European science at the forefront of exoplanet research.” Cheops will not focus on the...
