GMV will continue to provide mission control of Convection Rotation and planetary Transits (COROT), a space mission that's now extended through 2012. Led by the French Space Agency (CNES), European Space Agency (ESA), and other international sponsors, COROT’s main purpose is to scout for rocky exoplanets located outside our solar system, especially those of similar size to Earth that orbit nearby stars.

GMV is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the COROT Mission Control (CMC), which prepares and plans scientific activities and also receives and processes the scientific data generated on the mission. The COROT satellite was launched on December 27, 2006, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and the mission has been extended to 2012. Since the launch, the mission has discovered seven rocky planets, including some bigger than the earth. COROT is compromised of a 27cm diameter telescope and four CCD detectors. The probe studies the brightness of stars, looking for the slight dimming that occurs every time an orbiting planet travels in front of its star. COROT also studies stellar seismology, detecting luminosity variations caused by tremors in the stars’ surfaces. This technique allows it to calculate a star’s precise mass, age and chemical composition, helping to make comparisons with the sun thanks to the data collected by the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) mission.