by Tanja Schumann | Aug 18, 2024 | All, All about exoplanets, Missions
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024 Kepler is a NASA mission named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Like the previous and future space missions in search of exoplanets – CoRoT, TESS, CHEOPS and PLATO – Kepler uses the transit...
by Tanja Schumann | Aug 1, 2024 | All about exoplanets, Missions
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), Juli 2024 Prehistory One of the most successful methods for finding extrasolar planets is the transit method. When a planet passes in front of its star, it shadows it a little during this time. For an observer, the star is dimmed by a...
by Tanja Schumann | Jul 31, 2024 | All about exoplanets, Missions
ARIEL: Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024 ARIEL is an ESA space mission scheduled for launch in 2029. It is intended to determine the chemical composition and temperature profile in the atmospheres of...
by Tanja Schumann | Jul 31, 2024 | All about exoplanets, Missions
CHEOPS: CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite CHEOPS is an ESA space mission that has been travelling since the end of 2019. Using a small optical telescope with an aperture of 32 cm on board the satellite, it measures individual stars from a low Earth orbit where...
by Tanja Schumann | Apr 23, 2024 | All about exoplanets, Missions
PLATO: PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024 Mission idea To date, we have not found an Earth-like exoplanet in the life-friendly, habitable zone around a Sun-like star, even though there were occasional sensational media...
