COROT mission update
Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 08:30 UTC
After an initial observing run towards the galactic anticenter in January and February, then a shorter one of three weeks duration at the end of April towards the center, the COROT mission is now in the middle of its first long duration run of observation.
The telescope has been pointed since mid-May towards a zone of the galactic center, within Aquila constellation, which it will observe continuously until mid-October.
A progress key point of the COROT mission center activities was held on July 24 at CNES in Toulouse, with all the actors concerned. The objectives of the key point have been achieved successfully, and at this occasion it was raised that :
- The satellite works always remarkably well
- The level-0 products delivered by CNES to scientific laboratories, as well as the level-1 data under production at LESIA laboratory, confirm the excellent performances of the instrument. A complete set of twelve thousand exoplanet lights curves, corresponding to one month of observation, has already been generated.
