COROT

The COROT (Convection Rotation à Transits planétaires / Convection Rotation and planetary Transits) instrument, an afocal telescope equipped by four CCD detectors, was put on a Proteus platform and launched in late 2006 for an at least 2 and 1/2 years mission. This astrophysical space experiment will enable to study, in two application domains, phenomena and objects never observed to this day.