Mission Operations

 

PLATO will be launched with an Ariane 62 rocket for injection into a Lissajous orbit around the L2 Lagrangian point. To protect the instrument from solar light, it has to rotate by 90° around the line-of-sight (LoS) every 3 months.

L2 Lagrangian pointCredit: ESA
Questions about the PLATO mission or its Guest Observers Programme? Please contact our PLATO Helpdesk. This will connect you with our PLATO Science Operations Centre and technical specialists from our PLATO Mission Consortium, and our team will be happy to assist you. This website was last updated on 7 April 2026.