Europe Picks Planet-Hunting Space Telescope for 2024 Launch

Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 10:30 in Astronomy & Space

The European Space Agency has selected a space telescope called PLATO — short for Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars — as its third medium-class science mission. The observatory is slated to blast off in 2024.

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