June 24, 2014

Instrument integration & tests

Shipment of the Corot payload to Cannes (January 3rd, 2006)
Thermal tests in vacuum chamber, at Intespace (December 2005)
Three-axis mechanical tests on the shaker, at Intespace (October 2005)
Electromagnetic compatibility tests in anechoic chamber (september 2005)
Instrument integration in CST clean rooms (August 2005)

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Release of the CoRoT legacy data

The CoRoT team has recently released the mission full science data set.

July 18, 2016
Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of medium-mass stars

An international collaboration, involving the Astrophysics Department-AIM Laboratory of CEA-IRFU, managed to determine, from asteroseismology, that up to 65% of stars more massive...

January 21, 2016
Mission accomplished for CoRoT

After a mission that lasted twice as long as planned, CNES’s CoRoT spacecraft—capable of listening to the music of the heavens and hunting for exoplanets—is to be retired from...

June 24, 2013