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PLATO mission to find alien life is given the thumbs up

phuzz Silver badge
Facepalm

I went looking on the ESA site and I've found my mistake. The plan is to launch a *single spacecraft*, with twenty six individual telescopes on it (all pointing in slightly different directions). The plan is to launch on a Soyuz-Fregat2-1b from Kourou.

Somehow I'd got it into my head that this would be multiple craft, each with a single telescope on.

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