PLATO
Plato is ESA's Cosmic Vision exoplanet observatory, planned for launch in March 2027 on Ariane 62 from ELA-4 at Europe's Spaceport. Its 26 cameras will monitor more than 200,000 stars to find and characterize terrestrial exoplanets and use asteroseismology to determine the properties of their host stars from a large orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point.
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- PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of starsPlato
- Name
- PLATO
- Status
- planned
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- Description
- Plato is ESA's Cosmic Vision exoplanet observatory, planned for launch in March 2027 on Ariane 62 from ELA-4 at Europe's Spaceport. Its 26 cameras will monitor more than 200,000 stars to find and characterize terrestrial exoplanets and use asteroseismology to determine the properties of their host stars from a large orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point.
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Planned. The integrated flight spacecraft has completed major space-environment testing; ESA currently schedules launch for March 2027, followed by transfer and commissioning around the Sun-Earth L2 point.
- Program
- Cosmic Vision
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- Creation Time
- April 26, 2026 at 14:53:08 UTC
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- Updated Time
- July 17, 2026 at 05:48:41 UTC
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