Claude Catala
Role: PLATO Mission Consortium Lead (2007-2013) Born in 1958, graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique with a Ph.D in astrophysics,Claude Catala,…
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Heike Rauer
PLATO Role: Principal Investigator Since 2013, Rauer has been Head of the instrument consortium for PLATO. She has been the…
Optical Segmentation for a huge Field of View
Credit: INAF Achieving a very large FoV in common with a relatively arge aperture lead to fast focal ratio optics….
PLATO artwork
Date: 19 February 2014 Satellite: PLATO Copyright: ESA – C. Carreau
PLATO artwork
Copyright: Mark A. Garlick. Science Credit: Carole Haswell & Andrew Norton (The Open University).
PLATO artwork
Copyright: DLR
Telescope Optical Unit BreadBoard
The Telescope Optical Unit BreadBoard is the first built TOU model. It was done during the PLATO Phase A Study…
PLATO’s eye
24 times Kepler Overlapping FoV ∼2250 sqdeg, equivalent to a circle of ~53 deg diameter
PLATO Observing Concept
The PLATO observing concept
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