The PLATO 2.0 mission

H Rauer, C Catala, C Aerts, T Appourchaux… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
… Together with the results of ESA’s Gaia mission, the results of PLATO 2.0 will provide a … in
the consortium, the mission has been called PLATO 2.0 for ESA’s M3 mission selection phase. …

The PLATO 2.0 mission

K Heng, Y Alibert, W Benz - Experimental astronomy, 2014 - boris.unibe.ch
… Together with the results of ESA’s Gaia mission, the results of PLATO 2.0 will provide a … in
the consortium, the mission has been called PLATO 2.0 for ESA’s M3 mission selection phase. …

The PLATO Mission

H Michaelis, H Rauer, D Pollacco… - 2018 5th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
the status of the mission as given in the ESA Red Book ie at the time of mission adoption. …
can drastically reduce the dispersion in our estimates of stellar age (see Figure 2). …

The instrument control unit of the ESA-PLATO 2.0 mission

M Focardi, S Pezzuto, R Cosentino… - Space Telescopes …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
the overall DPS reliability. This paper provides an overview of the overall PLATO 2.0 DPS,
mainly focusing on the architecture and processing capabilities of the ICU, selected to fulfil the

[PDF][PDF] The PLATO 2.0 mission. Spanish contribution

JM Mas-Hesse, R Urquí-O'Callaghan… - Proc. 11th Sci …, 2014 - sea-astronomia.es
… After the selection as M3 mission in February 2014 the PLATO consortium was … the kick-off
meeting held in July in Berlin, and at the time of writing this paper we are fully inmersed in the

Ground-based photometric follow-up for exoplanet detections with the PLATO mission

HJ Deeg, R Alonso - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04503, 2024 - arxiv.org
The PLATO mission is set to launch in late 2026 and features 24 cameras with 12cm
apertures (plus 2 ‘fast’ cameras dedicated to bright stars). These cameras are arranged in four …

The planetary transit and oscillations (PLATO) mission status: flight model build and initial ground testing

JL Alvarez, T Walloschek, A Heras… - Space Telescopes …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… spacecraft will operate on a free-insertion, large amplitude, eclipse-free Lissajous libration
orbit around the Earth-Sun Lagrangian Point 2 (L2), located at ≈ 1.5 million km from Earth. It …

The fine guidance system of the PLATO mission

D Grießbach, U Witteck… - … Conference on Space …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… in missions like CoRoT, 2 Kepler, 3 and TESS. … the framework of its contribution to the PLATO
Mission. It presents results from the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission PLATO. …

The design of the Instrument Control Unit and its role within the Data Processing System of the ESA PLATO Mission

M Focardi, S Pezzuto, R Cosentino… - Space Telescopes …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… lines of sight of the four sub-groups are tilted by ±9,2 with respect to the Instrument Line of
Sight (LoS). This particular configuration allows surveying a very large field at each pointing, …

Technology validation of the PLATO CCD at ESA

T Prod'homme, P Verhoeve, T Beaufort… - … Energy, Optical, and …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… To de-risk the PLATO CCD procurement and aid the missionthe electro-optical performance
of a number of PLATO2 also shows with the two shaded areas the sampling scheme we …