Past, present and future exoplanet missions
Oct 10, 2019
2 minutes
2003
MOST
Launch date: 2003 End date: 2019
The Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars mission was Canada’s first space telescope and one of the earliest space-based exoplanet hunters. It was also quite small, picking up the nickname ‘the Humble Space Telescope’. In 2011 it detected transits of the star 55 Cancri
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