Space Telescopes & Missions

External Links (Ongoing & Future Missions) - Ground and Space

Ground Telescopes

Space Telescopes

ASTRA (ASTrometric and phase-Referenced Astronomy)
Astrometry

BOSS (Big Occulting Steerable Satellite)
Occultations

CHEOPS (CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite)
transits (launch 2017)

CoRoT (France - Europe - Brazil)
Search for planetary transits(several planets found)

CubeSat


ExoplanetSat
Transits

Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh)
Transits

Gaia (ESA)    Gaia at ESTEC
Astrometry, transits

GEST
Lensing and transits.

HST Astrometry
Astrometry (1 planet confirmed by astrometry)

OverSky
Transits

Hypertelescope projects (Haute Provence)
Imaging

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Infrared imaging and transits

KEPLER (NASA)
Search for planetary transits (several planets found)

MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations os STars) Canada
photometry (reflected light)

NEAT (Nearby Earth Astrometric Telescope)
Astrometry

New Worlds Observer
External occulter

NGTS (Next-Generation Transit Survey)
transitsongoing

Origins Billion Star Survey (OBSS)
Astrometry

PECO (Pupil mapping Exoplanet Coronagraphic Observer)
Direct imaging

Planet Imaging Concept Testbed Using a Rocket Experiment (PICTURE)

Planet Vision (PlaVi)
transits

Plato
Asteroseismology and transits

Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT, NASA)
Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy

Space Interferometry Mission (SIM)
Astrometric search

SPICES Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exo-planetary Systems
direct imaging

Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA)
Spizter Science
Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy (thermal emission of several planets detected)

Terrestrial Planet Finder (NASA)
Visible and IR imaging and spectroscopy

Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
transits
Launch in 2017

UMBRAS
Coronography

WFIRST
Microlensing and direct imaging