Plato readies for space-like tests
The European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets, Plato, is currently sealed in the Large Space Simulator (LSS) chamber at ESA’s Test Centre for…
Performance
Performance
The main scientific goals of PLATO concern the detection and characterisation of extrasolar planets for their radius, mass, and age….
Instrument Performance
PLATO aims at obtaining high precision, continuous time series of photometric measurements of a large sample of stars. The drivers…
Science Performance
The anticipated high accuracy of planet parameters for PLATO demands a correspondingly high accuracy of stellar parameters. Planetary radii are…
Planet Yield
One of the mission design drivers for PLATO is assuring the detectability of planets with the size of the Earth…
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