{"id":481218,"date":"2018-05-30T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=54bc0a0ac0bb8d9443ca8b20c7975adb"},"modified":"2018-05-30T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T07:32:00","slug":"esas-cheops-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=481218","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Cheops mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nESA\u2019s Cheops satellite \u2013 seen here at Airbus in Madrid \u2013 will measure the sizes of known exoplanets by detecting tiny fluctuations in the light of their parent stars. Due to be ready for launch at the end of this year, Cheops, or \u2018CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite\u2019<\/a> is only 1.5 m by 1.4 m by 1.5 m in size. It weighs in at about 300 kg fully fuelled \u2013 less than a large motorbike.\n<\/p>\n

\nSmall satellites as a term covers everything from this sub-tonne class of mission, down to CubeSats and picosats. Their ever-growing capabilities is under discussion at this week\u2019s 4S Small Satellite Systems and Services Symposium<\/a> in Sorrento, Italy. Organised by ESA\u2019s Head of Optics, Luca Maresi, the symposium\u2019s speakers include Roger Walker, who leads ESA\u2019s Technology CubeSat efforts<\/a> on sending small satellites beyond Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nESA’s Cheops satellite – seen here at Airbus in Madrid – will measure the sizes of known exoplanets by detecting tiny fluctuations in the light of their parent stars. Due to be ready for launch at the end of this year, Cheops, or ‘CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite’<\/a> is only 1.5 m by 1.4 m by 1.5 m in size. It weighs in at about 300 kg fully fuelled – less than a large motorbike.\n<\/p>\n

\nSmall satellites as a term covers everything from this sub-tonne class of mission, down to CubeSats and picosats. Their ever-growing capabilities is under discussion at this week’s 4S Small Satellite Systems and Services Symposium<\/a> in Sorrento, Italy. Organised by ESA’s Head of Optics, Luca Maresi, the symposium’s speakers include Roger Walker, who leads ESA’s Technology CubeSat efforts<\/a> on sending small satellites beyond Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481220,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481218\/revisions\/481220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}