TELEDYNE E2V AWARDED SECOND PHASE OF €42M CONTRACT TO PROVIDE CUSTOM IMAGE SENSORS FOR ESA PLATO MISSION

CHELMSFORD, United Kingdom, May 24 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Teledyne e2v, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), with the second phase of a €42M ($47M) contract to produce high-end Charge Coupled Device (CCD) visible light image sensors for the PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission. PLATO is a planet hunting spacecraft that will seek out and research Earth like exoplanets around Sun like stars. About 100 Teledyne e2v large area CCDs will allow the mission to detect minute changes in the apparent brightness of stars, orbited by planets.

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