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Mission Summary

PLATO
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars
Theme What are the conditions for planet formation and the emergence of life?
Primary Goal Discover and characterise a large number of close-by exoplanetary systems, with a precision in the determination of mass and radius of 1%
Targets
  • Detect Earth sized planets around solar type stars
  • Detect super-earths around solar type stars
  • Measure solar oscillations in the host stars of exoplanets
  • Measure oscillations of classical pulsators
  • Wavelength Optical
    Telescope A number of individual catadioptric telescopes
    Orbit Large amplitude libration orbit around Sun-Earth L2
    Lifetime min. 5 years
    Partners To be confirmed
    Type M-class Mission

    Mission home: http://sci.esa.int/plato

    RECENT EVENTS
    M-class missions presentation event 2009
    (1 Dec 2009)
    LATEST PUBLICATIONS
    PLATO Mission Assessment Study - Executive Summary (Thales)
    PLATO Mission Assessment Study - Executive Summary (EADS Astrium)
    ESA Technical Review Report - PLATO (SRE-PA/2009.081)
    PLATO Assessment Study Report (ESA/SRE-2009-4)

     

     

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