出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/10 11:51 UTC 版)
COROT (French: COnvection ROtation et Transits planétaires; English: COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners. The mission's two objectives are 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. It was launched at 14:28:00 UTC on 27 December 2006, atop a Soyuz 2.1b carrier rocket. COROT subsequently reported first light on 18 January 2007. COROT is the first spacecraft dedicated to extrasolar planet detection. It detected its first extrasolar planet, COROT-1b, in May 2007. Mission flight operations were originally scheduled to end 2.5 years from launch but flight operations were extended to January, 2010 and then to 2013.