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CoRoT

French satellite
Also known as: Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits
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Erik Gregersen
Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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CoRoT, French satellite that studied the internal structure of stars and detected extrasolar planets. It was launched on December 27, 2006, by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It operated until November 2, 2012, when its computer malfunctioned, and it was unable to return data to Earth. After months of attempts to fix the computer, ground controllers shut down CoRoT on June 18, 2013. CoRoT carried a telescope 27 cm (11...

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