What is challenging about Cheops?

What was the major challenge in building ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops? Find out more in this…

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 –…