Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and
Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.
Not exact matches
The
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO)
mission is designed to fill that gap.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Programme Committee announced on Wednesday, February 19, that it has selected the
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO)
mission for a prospective 2024 launch utilizing a Soyuz - Fregat launch vehicle.
From the European Space Agency (ESA): «The
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO)
mission will identify and study thousands of exoplanetary systems, with an emphasis on discovering and characterising Earth - sized planets and super-Earths.
This directly affects the determination of the oc... ▽ More The Kepler
mission has to date found almost 6,000
planetary transit - like signals, utilizing three years of data for over 170,000 stars at extremely high photometric precision.
Major sources of astrophysical false positives are
planetary transits and stellar eclipses on background... ▽ More The Kepler
Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for Earth - size planets with the
transit technique.
A third
mission, called PLATO (
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), proposed using a number of small, optically fast, wide - field telescopes to detect and characterize a large number of close - by exoplanetary systems.
Follow - up observations of
planetary candidates identified by detection of
transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic
planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler
Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the
transit technique.
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, NASA's Kepler
Mission revealed that, thus far, it has detected 1,235
planetary candidates orbiting 907 host stars, from a survey of some 155,453 stars in constellations Cygnus and Lyra using the
transit method which requires a rare orbital alignment across the face of the host star as seen from the Solar System.
Future exoplanet
missions like NASA's
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and European Space Agency's CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) and
PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO - 2.0)
missions will bring in even more data than Kepler and help us fill out the ranks of small habitable zone planets.
We report on the results from the radial - velocity follow - up program performed to establish the
planetary nature and to characterize the
transiting candidates discovered by the space
mission CoRoT.