Exoplanet search projects

NASA/ESA/CSA space telescope launched in 2021

defunct NASA space telescope

European Space Agency astrometric mission

is an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. It is a successor to the Hayabusa mission, which returned asteroid samples for the first time in June 2010. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November 2019 and returned the samples to Earth on 5 December 2020 UTC. Its mission has now been extended through at least 2031, when it will rendezvous with the small, rapidly-rotating asteroi

NASA satellite of the Explorer program

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.

multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey

Japanese telescope and observatory

planned NASA infrared space observatory

space telescope

CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) is a European space telescope. Its objective is to determine the size of known extrasolar planets, which will allow the estimation of their mass, density, composition and their formation. Launched on 18 December 2019, it is the first Small-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision science programme. The small satellite features an optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope with an aperture of 30 cm, mounted on a standard small satellite platform. It was placed into a Sun-synchronous orbit of about 700 km altitude.

high-precision echelle spectrograph

proposed project by NASA to construct a system of space telescopes for detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets; postponed several times and finally cancelled in 2011

long-term variability sky survey

cancelled NASA space telescope

suggested ESA Cornerstone mission

smallsat space telescope

proposed space telescope project

EPOXI was a compilation of NASA Discovery program missions led by the University of Maryland and principal investigator Michael A'Hearn, with co-operation from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Ball Aerospace. EPOXI uses the Deep Impact spacecraft in a campaign consisting of two missions: the Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI) and Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization (EPOCh). DIXI aimed to send the Deep Impact spacecraft on a flyby of another comet, after its primary mission was completed in July 2005, while EPOCh saw the spacecraft's photographic instruments as a space ob

reflecting telescope in Chile

thumb|305x305px|ESA's exoplanet missions Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) is a planned space telescope and the fourth medium-class mission of the European Space Agency's Cosmic Vision programme. The mission is aimed at observing at least 1,000 known exoplanets using the transit method, studying and characterising the planets' chemical composition and thermal structures. Compared to the James Webb Space Telescope, Ariel will be a much smaller telescope with more observing time available for planet characterisation. Ariel was expected to be launched in 2029 aboa

automated telescope searching exoplanets currently under construction

robotic observatory to monitor the brightness of thousands of red dwarf stars with the goal of finding transiting planets

proposed project comprising a large occulter flying in formation designed to block the light of nearby stars in order to observe their orbiting exoplanets

astronomical research project

citizen science project to find exoplanets

thumb|ESPRESSO spectrograph concept at the Preliminary Design Review thumb|ESPRESSO spectrograph optical design at the Preliminary Design Review thumb|ESPRESSO successfully made its first observations in November 2017.

SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) is a project consisting of SPECULOOS Southern Observatory (SSO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile and SPECULOOS Northern Observatory (SNO) at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife.

CubeSat testing technologies for the detection of exoplanets

imaging instrument for the Gemini South Telescope in Chile

2006 astronomical survey

PEGASE is a design for a space observatory developed by France in the early 2000s. It combined formation flying with infrared telescopes operating as a double-aperture interferometer. Three free-flying satellites would operate together;a beam combiner and two siderostats. The baseline of the interferometer would be adjustable to between 50 and 500 meters. The goal of the mission is the study of Hot Jupiters ("pegasids"), brown dwarfs and the interior of protoplanetary disks. The design was developed by Centre National d'Études Spatiales and was studied for a launch as early as 2010–2012. Howev

cancelled ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets

exoplanet search program

ground-based search for extrasolar planets

planned space telescope to directly image and spectroscopically analyse exoplanets

French astronomical instrument

proposed space observatory to characterize exoplanets' atmospheres and their discovery.

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__NOTOC__ HARPS-N, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern hemisphere is a high-precision radial-velocity spectrograph, installed at the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, a 3.58-metre telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.

concept study for a Far-Infrared Surveyor space telescope mission

The Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet; ) is an ongoing wide-field photometric system that aims to discover extrasolar planets using gravitational microlensing. The system leverages three identical 1.6 m wide-field optical telescopes located at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in South Africa, and the Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) in Australia. All three telescopes share a latitude of −30 degrees enabling continuous monitoring of the galactic bulge during 8 months of each year and other targets in the sou

The Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) was a proposed space telescope as part of the Cosmic Vision roadmap of the European Space Agency, and competed with four other missions for the M3 slot in the programme. On 19 February 2014 the PLATO mission was selected in place of the other candidates in the programme, including EChO.

astronomical survey by the Anglo-Australian Observatory

The TOLIMAN (Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood) space telescope is a low-cost mission concept aimed at detecting of exoplanets via the astrometry method, and specifically targeting the Alpha Centauri system. TOLIMAN will focus on stars within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) of the Sun. The telescope is still under construction. The mission will involve scientists of the University of Sydney, Saber Astronautics in Australia, Breakthrough Initiatives, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

astronomical survey focusing on exoplanets

proposed space telescope

adaptive optics system and coronagraphic facility at the Very Large Telescope

citizen science project