LAUNCH / Ariane 62 Block 2
PLATO
Planned for March 2027 · Provisional
Planned with Ariane 62 Block 2 from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana. Dates may change.
Source: Launch Library 2 / The Space Devs · Last successful recall: 29 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC. Older data status – not successfully updated for more than two hours.
Date and mission
- Date according to source
- Planned for March 2027
- Status according to source
- Provisional
- Rocket
- Ariane 62 Block 2 →
- Launch provider
- Arianespace
- Launch Site
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana →
- Launch Platform
- Ariane Launch Area 4
- European reference
- European rocket & European participation
- Payload participation
- European Space Agency
- Source last changed
- 5 Jul 2026, 00:16 UTC
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Spaceflight News API ↗ · Retrieved: 29 Oct 2026, 20:13 UTC
Original source description (English)
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.
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