T-minus
234days
06hrs
36min
57sec
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Arianespace
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
L2
Mission type
Astrophysics
Launch site
French Guiana
Date
Sun, 31 Jan 2027 00:00:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#7485 ever
Mission
Plato, for PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission with 26 cameras to study terrestrial exoplanets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. Its goal is to measure the sizes of exoplanets and discover exomoons and rings around them, as well as characterise planets' host stars by studying tiny light variations in the starlight it receives.