{"id":639654,"date":"2019-12-03T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639654"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:30:00","slug":"cheops-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639654","title":{"rendered":"Cheops transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Cheops_transfer_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, encapsulated under the ASAP-S adapter of the Soyuz launcher, being lifted onto the transport module on 29 November ahead of its transport to the final integration building at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>Cheops is ESA\u2019s first mission dedicated to the study of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. It will observe bright stars that are already known to host planets, measuring minuscule brightness changes due to the planet\u2019s transit across the star\u2019s disc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">More about Cheops<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2019\/12\/Cheops_transfer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cheops transfer<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, encapsulated under the ASAP-S adapter of the Soyuz launcher, being lifted onto the transport module on 29 November ahead of its transport to the final&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639655,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639654","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\/639654","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}