Changes in starlight reflected by the planet as it orbits its star provide insight into the physical processes…
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OPS-SAT: ESA’s flying lab, open to all
What would you do with a powerful computer based in space? At just 30 cm in…
Meet Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite
Find out how Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, is going to investigate distant planets orbiting stars…
How will Cheops investigate exoplanets?
How will ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, investigate exoplanets? Find out more in this interview with…
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…