Setup of the vacuum chamber for CHEOPS
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View ArticleHere arises the CHEOPS lab
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View ArticlePRACTICE MAKES PERFECT FOR CHEOPS INFLIGHT OPERATIONS
It takes collaboration and teamwork to operate a spacecraft. As the CHEOPS launch approaches, a Europe-wide team is preparing to take control of inflight activities once the satellite is in space....
View ArticleCompleted last light excitation
The CHEOPS spacecraft has completed its last light excitation test prior to shipment to the launch site. Afterwards, the small window in the telescope cover was sealed with a plastic cover. The...
View ArticleHOW CHEOPS WILL INVESTIGATE PLANET-HOSTING STARS
As launch approaches for ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, CHEOPS, scientists are rounding off the observing plans for the mission, with the science themes of the core programme announced...
View ArticleCheops passes final review before shipment to launch site
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review for its launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The post Cheops...
View ArticleCheops: Planning a perfect mission
Teams of scientists and engineers are simulating the launch, early orbit phase and commissioning of the CHEOPS mission ahead of its launch period in the last quarter of 2019. The simulations are...
View ArticleCheops: Planning a perfect mission
Teams of scientists and engineers are simulating the launch, early orbit phase and commissioning of the CHEOPS mission ahead of its launch period in the last quarter of 2019. The simulations are...
View Article“Now CHEOPS is ready for transport to Kourou”
The space telescope CHEOPS is foreseen to launch in the last quarter of 2019. “In July, we carried out the final tests on the instrument at Airbus in Madrid,” says project manager Christopher Broeg:...
View ArticleWhat kind of exoplanets will CHEOPS study?
“By targeting known systems, we know exactly where to look in the sky and when in order to capture exoplanet transits very efficiently,” says Willy Benz, CHEOPS principal investigator at the University...
View ArticleCheops: science in action
Scientists at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland will be processing data from Cheops, ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, scheduled to launch soon to study planets orbiting stars outside our...
View ArticleNew 1:1 CHEOPS mock-up exposed
New 1:1 CHEOPS mock-up exposed at the EPSC-DPS 2019, 15 – 20 September 2019, in the hall of the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG). The event is a joint meeting of the European Planetary...
View ArticleCongratulations to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded with one half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. Michel Mayor is member of the...
View Article“They both live on another planet now.”
Willy Benz is particularly pleased about this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for the Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. He was Michel Mayor’s first PhD student at the University of...
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CHEOPS has arrived in Kourou
Last station before launch! The CHEOPS satellite has arrived by plane on 16 October 2019 at Europe’s Spaceport Kourou in French Guiana. Now CHEOPS is being prepared to launch into space soon with...
View ArticleCHEOPS with the airbus team at Kourou launch facilities (courtesy of ADS...
CHEOPS with the airbus team at Kourou launch facilities (courtesy of ADS Madrid). The post CHEOPS with the airbus team at Kourou launch facilities (courtesy of ADS Madrid). appeared first on CHEOPS.
View ArticleCHEOPS Team members and their favourite drawing
Soon, CHEOPS will launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, to study exoplanets. The mission is a partnership between Switzerland and ESA’s Science Programme. On board the satellite are...
View ArticleExoplanet satellite CHEOPS encapsulated
It’s an intense period at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where engineers from ESA, Airbus and CNES have been preparing CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) for launch, since the...
View ArticleCHEOPS launch set for 17 Dec. 2019
The space telescope CHEOPS is scheduled to begin its journey into space on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 shortly before 10 a.m. CET. The University of Bern organizes an event with a live stream from Kourou...
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