The PLATO  mission design and status

Jose Lorenzo Alvarez; Filippo Marliani; Ana Heras; Thomas Walloschek; Marco Gaido; Joseph Huesler; Amadou Whitaker; José Aroca; Alistair Winton; Daniele Teti; Ian Harrison; Fabrice Boquet; Marco Cesa; Philippe Laget; Thomas Kanitz; Sami-Matias Niemi; Yves Levillain; Duncan Goulty; Sean Madden; James Windsor; Juan Pablo Rodríguez García; Nadia Hidalgo Torres; Beverly Brown; Laurence O'Rourke; Mark Kidger; David Milligan; Steve Foley; Francesca Molendini; Marco Ermocida; Andrea Sacchetti; Frank Steier; Laura León Pérez; Jean-Luc Petit; Christian Walther; Martin Pertenais; Anders Erikson; Juan Cabrera; César Martín García; Heike Rauer; Isabella Pagano; Miguel Mas-Hesse

doi:10.1117/12.2630215

29 August 2022 The PLATO mission design and status

Jose Lorenzo Alvarez, Filippo Marliani, Ana Heras, Thomas Walloschek, Marco Gaido, Joseph Huesler, Amadou Whitaker, José Aroca, Alistair Winton, Daniele Teti, Ian Harrison, Fabrice Boquet, Marco Cesa, Philippe Laget, Thomas Kanitz, Sami-Matias Niemi, Yves Levillain, Duncan Goulty, Sean Madden, James Windsor, Juan Pablo Rodríguez García, Nadia Hidalgo Torres, Beverly Brown, Laurence O'Rourke, Mark Kidger, David Milligan, Steve Foley, Francesca Molendini, Marco Ermocida, Andrea Sacchetti, Frank Steier, Laura León Pérez, Jean-Luc Petit, Christian Walther, Martin Pertenais, Anders Erikson, Juan Cabrera, César Martín García, Heike Rauer, Isabella Pagano, Miguel Mas-Hesse

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Proceedings Volume 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 1218019 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630215
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations) mission is a space-based optical multi-camera photometer mission of the European Space Agency to identify and characterize exoplanets and their hosting stars using two main techniques: planetary transit and asteroseismology. The PLATO spacecraft is composed of a Service Module and a Payload Module. The Service Module comprises all the conventional spacecraft subsystems and the sun shield with attached solar arrays. The Payload Module consists of a highly stable optical bench, equipped with 26 optical imagers/cameras covering a global field of view of > 2232 deg2. The design includes two types of cameras: 24 Normal Cameras (N-CAMs) with measurement cadences of 25s and 2 Fast Cameras (F-CAMs) with a cadence of 2.5s. The PLATO spacecraft data is complemented by ground based observations and processed by a dedicate Science Ground Segment. We describe the mission and spacecraft architecture and provide a view of the current status of development.

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Jose Lorenzo Alvarez, Filippo Marliani, Ana Heras, Thomas Walloschek, Marco Gaido, Joseph Huesler, Amadou Whitaker, José Aroca, Alistair Winton, Daniele Teti, Ian Harrison, Fabrice Boquet, Marco Cesa, Philippe Laget, Thomas Kanitz, Sami-Matias Niemi, Yves Levillain, Duncan Goulty, Sean Madden, James Windsor, Juan Pablo Rodríguez García, Nadia Hidalgo Torres, Beverly Brown, Laurence O'Rourke, Mark Kidger, David Milligan, Steve Foley, Francesca Molendini, Marco Ermocida, Andrea Sacchetti, Frank Steier, Laura León Pérez, Jean-Luc Petit, Christian Walther, Martin Pertenais, Anders Erikson, Juan Cabrera, César Martín García, Heike Rauer, Isabella Pagano, and Miguel Mas-Hesse "The PLATO mission design and status", Proc. SPIE 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 1218019 (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630215

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