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ALTER y la Agencia Espacial Española tienen el placer de invitarle al evento:

ENCUENTRO PLATO: Un proyecto, muchas miradas 24 de febrero

11:00–14:00

Tomas A. Edison, 2 41092 Sevilla

El objetivo de esta jornada es poner en valor el trabajo colectivo que sustenta la misión PLATO, así como las sinergias entre los distintos actores que participan en su desarrollo. Un evento concebido como un punto de encuentro de alguno de los colaboradores más importantes del proyecto.

Programa

11:00 – 11:05 | Bienvenida ALTER, Luis Gómez, CEO

Duration: 20/01/2026 - 15/04/2026

The Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) is promoting this exhibition project, which combines informative panels, scale models, three-dimensional models, and real engineering pieces to bring the objectives of the PLATO mission closer to the public.

The exhibition begins its tour at the National Museum of Science and Technology of Madrid (MUNCYT) in Alcobendas, where it can be visited until April 2026, and will then continue to other science museums in the country.

PLATO instrument integrated into and placed on the spacecraft. CREDIT ESA – M. Pédoussaut

The MEUs (Main Electronic Units) were delivered and  integrated with the PLATO instrument.

In May the MEU FM was deliverd to OHB (prime of PLATO Mission) in Germany (Oberpfaffenhofen).

The second MEU unit, MEU PFM was delivered in June 2025. 

Now all the instrument is now together with the spacecraft and ready to be tested. 

The IAA PLATO team attended the Astrorob25 meeting: a forum where engineers and scientists presented their work on robotic telescopes.

The IAA MEU team gave a talk and presented a poster describing PLATO's MEU mission.

Andy (formally Andrés Moya Bedón) which is PI-Invest Disting d'Excellencia Comunidad Valenciana proposed a future application of the PLATO development at the Technical Session on the RIA-Tec2Space 19-22 April 2022.

HAYDN benefits from the heritage of PLATO, but it is designed for the observation of dense stellar fields (HAYDN FoV 1.3 vs PLATO FoV 3.7).

New milestone MEU EM at DLR.

Desde el canal Quantum Fracture (José Luis Crespo), esta creando en su canal de Youtube un episodio especial sobre Exoplanetas.

En este episodio, cuantan con la colaboracion de 

Enric Pallé Bagó y Hector Socas-Navarro del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

y nos describen los aspectos clave de la caza de exoplanetas desde tierra.

Quantum Fracture

¡Ciencia! ¡y con animaciones! El lado más loco (y real) del Universo... cada jueves.

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The measurement principle of PLATO is to carry out high precision, long (months to years), uninterrupted photometric monitoring in the visible band of very large samples of bright (m_V ≤ 11–13) stars. The resulting light curves will be used for the detection of planetary transits, from which the planetary radii will be determined, and for the asteroseismology analysis to derive accurate stellar parameters and ages. Since the PLATO targets are bright, the masses of the detected planets can be determined from radial velocity observations at ground-based observatories.