PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars space mission

PLATO
PLATO
Owner institution
European Space Agency
State
Under development

Para conseguir los objetivos, PLATO estará equipado con 26 telescopios de pequeño formato, cada uno de ellos con 4 detectores tipo CCD con un total de 80 millones de píxeles. PLATO observará las mismas estrellas durante largos periodos, de hasta 3 años, desde su posición orbital en el punto de Lagrange L2, a 1,5 millones de km de la Tierra.

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  • Componentes del experimento PLATO
    PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars)
    PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. 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 around solar-like stars
    Hans Jörg
    Deeg Deeg
    In progress

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Space