List of exoplanet search projects
Appearance
The following is a list of exoplanet search projects.
Ground-based search projects
- Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAPS)
- Automated Planet Finder (APF), based at the Lick Observatory
- CORALIE spectrograph
- East-Asian Planet Search Network (EAPSNET)
- ELODIE
- EPICS, based at the European Extremely Large Telescope
- ESPRESSO, based at the Very Large Telescope
- FINDS Exo-Earths
- Gemini Planet Imager (GPI)
- Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search
- HATNet Project (HATNet)
- HEK
- HiCIAO, based at the Subaru Telescope
- High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES), based at the W. M. Keck Observatory
- KELT
- Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey (LCES)
- Magellan Planet Search Program
- MARVELS
- MEarth Project
- Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFUN)
- Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA)
- Micro-arcsecond University of Sydney Companion Astrometry (MUSCA)
- N2K Consortium
- NASA-UC Eta-Earth
- Okayama Planet Search Program (OPSP)
- Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)
- PlanetPol
- PlanetQuest
- Project 1640
- PRL Advanced Radial-velocity All-sky Search (PARAS)
- Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES)
- Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS)
- Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)
- SOPHIE échelle spectrograph
- SuperWASP (WASP)
- Systemic, an amateur search project
- Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES)
- XO Telescope (XO)
- ZIMPOL/CHEOPS, based at the Very Large Telescope
Space missions
Past and current
- MOST – launched on 30 June 2003
- SWEEPS (2006), based at the Hubble Space Telescope
- COROT – launched on 27 December 2006, ended mission in 2013
- EPOXI, using the existing Deep Impact – from 2008 till 2013
- Kepler – launched on 7 March 2009
- Gaia – launched on 19 December 2013
Planned
- CHEOPS – launch in 2017
- TESS – launch in 2017
- James Webb Space Telescope – launch in 2018
- PLATO – launch in 2024