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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: French spationauts, Guiana Space Centre, Reconnaissance satellites of France, Sounding rockets of France, Space launch vehicles of France, Diamant, COROT, Ocean Surface Topography Mission, Jason-1, Jean-Loup Chretien, TOPEX/Poseidon, CNES, Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite, Jean-Francois Clervoy, Signe 3, SPOT, Leopold Eyharts, Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales, Philippe Perrin, Michel Tognini, Patrick Baudry, Megha-Tropiques, Jean-Jacques Favier, Claudie Haignere, CALIPSO, Jean-Pierre Haignere, Ensemble de Lancement Soyouz, GEIPAN, ELA-1, Demeter, DORIS, Asterix, Essaim, Thomas Pesquet, Cerise, ELA-2, Parasol, Topaze, ELA-3, Helios 1B, Helios 2, Berenice, Spirale, Centaure, Dragon, Dauphin, Robert Aubiniere, Titus, Veronique, Eridan, Rubis, Monica, Issus Aussaguel, Proteus. Excerpt: COROT (French COnvection ROtation et Transits planetaires, so in English COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners. The mission's two objectives are to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those of large terrestrial size, and to perform asteroseismology by measuring solar-like oscillations in stars. It was launched at 14:28:00 UTC on 27 December 2006, atop a Soyuz 2.1b carrier rocket. COROT subsequently reported first light on 18 January 2007. COROT is the first spacecraft dedicated to extrasolar planet detection. It detected its first extrasolar planet, COROT-1b, in May 2007. Mission flight operations were originally scheduled to end 2.5 years from launch but apparently flight operations were extended to January, 2010 and then to 2013. The COROT optical design minimizes stray light coming from the Earth and provides a field of vie...
