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 ...

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 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” ...