COROT
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CoRoT (French: ; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those of large terrestrial size, and to perform asteroseismology by measuring solar-like oscillations in stars. The mission was led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- CoRoT
- Spaceflight.image
- COROT integration.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- The CoRoT satellite in the integration hall of Thales Alenia Space, Cannes
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Space telescope
- Spaceflight.operator
- CNESESA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2006-063A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 29678
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- Planned: 2.5 + 4 years Final:
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- CNESThales Alenia Space
- Spaceflight.power
- ≈380 W
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Baikonur LC-31/6
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- ArianespaceStarsem
- Spaceflight.disposal_type
- Decommissioned
- Spaceflight.deactivated
- UTC
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 668
- Image
- COROT integration.jpg
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- Commons category
- COROT
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2006-12-27
- service life
- 5.8
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Article
24 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Spacecraft design
- Mission design
- Development
- Potential
- Failure of Data Processing Unit No. 1
- Follow-up program
- Discoveries
- Asteroseismology and stellar physics
- Extension of the chemically mixed zone in main sequence stars
- Structure of the superficial stellar layers
- Red giants and chemical evolution of this galaxy
- Massive stars
- The open cluster NGC 2264
- Binary systems
- Exoplanets
- Timeline of planetary discoveries
- Main results
- List of exoplanets discovered
- Other discoveries
- Global properties of the exoplanets discovered by CoRoT
- See also
- References
- External links
CoRoT (French: ; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those of large terrestrial size, and to perform asteroseismology by measuring solar-like oscillations in stars. The mission was led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners.
Among the notable discoveries was CoRoT-7b, discovered in 2009 which became the first exoplanet shown to have a rock or metal-dominated composition.