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Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars: the ESA M3 mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025

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  • Project Management
    • PLATO Funding Agencies
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  • News

    Delivery of first detectors for PLATO’s exoplanet mission

  • ArtWork

    ESA’s fleet of cosmic observers

  • Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Week #7, Cambridge, 5-7 December 2018

  • Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    PLATO ESP2018: Stellar variability and its effect on the characterisation of small planets, 24-26 Oct 2018, Marseille

  • ArtWork

    PLATO artwork

  • Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Week #6, Madrid, 13-15 March 2018

  • Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    Camera AIV Meeting, Munich 13-14 Feb 2018

  • Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    Plato Week #5, Porto, 24-26 Oct 2017

  • Meeting on Exoplanets, Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Mission Conference 2017, Warwick, 5-7 Sep 2017

  • Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Week #4, Jun 20-22 2017, Albanova Univ., Stockholm

  • Meetings, PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Week #3, 13-15 Mar 2017, Göttingen

  • PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Week #2, 8-10 Nov 2016, ASI, Rome

  • PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Week #1, July 2016 at KU Leuven

  • ArtWork

    PLATO artwork

  • ArtWork

    PLATO artwork

  • ArtWork

    PLATO artwork

  • Pictures, Rendering

    PLATO satellite – TAS model

  • PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Payload Meeting, Berlin 15-17 July 2015

  • PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Science Meeting in Taormina, Italy – 3-5 Dec 2014

  • PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Phase B1 KOM, Berlin, 16-17 July 2014

  • PLATO Meetings

    PLATO TOU Team Meeting, Catania 28 Feb – 1 Mar 2011

  • PLATO Meetings

    PLATO Science Conference, Berlin, 24-25 Feb 2011

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Science Objectives
Planet detection and characterisation of bulk parameters

Planet detection and characterisation of bulk parameters

Since the discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a solar type star in 1995 (Mayor & Queloz 1995),  just…

  • PLATO study planets where they form
  • Habitability of planets around solar-like stars
  • Testing Planet Formation
  • Multiple Planet Systems
  • Terrestrial Planets
Science Requirements
  • Top scientific requirements

    Top scientific requirements

  • Derived Scientific Requirements
  • Wavelength and colour information
  • Observation gaps
Mission in depth
  • Mission Profile

    Mission Profile

  • Launch scenario and transfer
  • Operations at the Lagrange point 2 (L2)
  • Telemetry data budget
The PLATO Way
  • PLATO Measurement Concept

    PLATO Measurement Concept

  • The transit method
  • The radial velocity method
  • Asteroseismology
Payload
  • Payload Module

    Payload Module

  • Cameras
  • Telescope Optical Unit (TOU)
  • Focal Plane Assembly (FPA)
Ground Segment
  • Science Operations

    Science Operations

  • Data Products
  • Ground-based Observation Programme
  • Organisation of Ground-based Observation
Payload Management
  • Payload Management & Engineering Office 

    Payload Management & Engineering Office 

  • Camera AIV Teams
  • TOU Team
  • ICU Team
FactSheets
  • PLATO and the search for planets in the habitable zone

    PLATO and the search for planets in the habitable zone

  • TESS and PLATO at a glance
Meetings
  • PLATO Week #8, Graz, 15-17 April 2019

    PLATO Week #8, Graz, 15-17 April 2019

  • 5ème atelier PLATO/France: Synergies PLATO/ARIEL, 26-27 Mar 2019 Bordeaux (France)
  • PLATO Limb-Darkening Meeting #1, 26-27 Feb 2019, Granada
  • PLATO Atmosphere Workshop, 4-5 Feb 2019, DLR Adlershof (Berlin)
PLATO People

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Publications
  • PLATO papers

    PLATO papers

  • ESA Books
Newsletter
  • Newsletter #30

    Newsletter #30

  • Newsletter #29
  • Newsletter #28
  • Newsletter #27
Pictures from Meetings
  • Milazzo (Italy), 22-25 May 2018

    Milazzo (Italy), 22-25 May 2018

  • Madrid, 12-14 Mar 2018
  • Munich, 13-14 Feb 2018
  • Padova, 7 Nov 2017
Payload Models
  • Telescope Optical Unit Prototype

    Telescope Optical Unit Prototype

  • Telescope Optical Unit BreadBoard
Videos
PLATO’s eye

PLATO’s eye

PLATO combined cameras will have an extremely wide field of view, covering a total area on the sky of approximately…

  • Optical Segmentation for a huge Field of View
  • PLATO vs. Kepler FoV
  • PLATO’s eye
  • PLATO Observing Concept
  • PLATO Long Pointing and Step & Stare Phases
News
Delivery of first detectors for PLATO’s exoplanet mission

Delivery of first detectors for PLATO’s exoplanet mission

The first batch of 20 charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to be flown on ESA’s PLATO space observatory was accepted for delivery…

  • PLATO Database Software Developer position open at the MPS, Göttingen (PDC-DB-swdev)
  • PLATO Database Software Developer position open at the MPS, Göttingen (PDC-DB-sciprog)
  • Research Fellow in Astrophysics (Extrasolar Planetary Science) at St. Andrews University, Scotland – Ref. AR2194HM
  • PLATO and the search for planets in the habitable zone
  • Management of the PLATO Characterization and Operations Team (PCOT): job position open at DLR, Berlin
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  • P/L S/C I/F Meeting 29/04/2019 Where: OHB Munich
  • Payload Progress Meeting 30/04/2019 Where: OHB Munich
  • Schedule WG #2 22/05/2019 Where: OHB Munich
  • PLATO Week No.9 09/10/2019 – 11/10/2019
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