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Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the way
Spare a thought this Christmas for researchers hunkered down on their Polarstern icebreaker, adrift in the…
Why are exoplanets exciting?
Why are exoplanets exciting and why is ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, such a special mission?…
Hubble’s celestial peanut
Image: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1175, a galaxy with an…
Cheops launch vehicle integration
The upper composite of the Soyuz that will lift ESA’s Cheops mission into space, along with the…
Transfer of Cheops launch vehicle to launch pad
The 3-stage section of the Soyuz launcher that will lift ESA’s Cheops satellite into space is…
Cheops: Characterising exoplanets
Cheops: Characterising exoplanets Click here for original story, Cheops: Characterising exoplanets …
Week in images: 9-13 December 2019
Click here for original story, Week in images: 9-13 December 2019 …
Watch Cheops launch live
Tune in to ESA Web TV from 08:30 GMT (09:30 CET) Tuesday 17 December to watch…
Sandbox satellite to test operations innovations in space
This coming Tuesday, ESA is launching the most powerful flight computer ever flown in space –…