The PLATO space mission will use 26 cameras to search for Earth-like planets around 200,000 stars in the Milky Way, starting in late 2026. DLR is leading the PLATO payload consortium and supplying ...

This is expected to change considerably with the ESA's next-generation PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space telescope. This mission will rely on a multi-telescope approach ...

or the future PLATO spacecraft," explains MPS scientist Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz, first author of the new study. "As with other stars orbited by exoplanets, the observed light curve of WASP-39 is ...

This performance is achieved by a multi-telescope instrument concept, which is novel for a space telescope. The PLATO payload is made of 24 almost identical “normal” cameras (N-CAM), two “fast” ...