{"id":640758,"date":"2019-12-16T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640758"},"modified":"2019-12-16T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:44:00","slug":"meet-cheops-the-characterising-exoplanet-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640758","title":{"rendered":"Meet Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Meet_Cheops_the_Characterising_Exoplanet_Satellite_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Find out how Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, is going to investigate distant planets orbiting stars other than the Sun to discover what these alien worlds are made of.\u00a0As part of its inspiring mission, Cheops will measure accurately the dimensions of small exoplanets \u2013 in the Earth- to Neptune-size range \u2013 of which we already know the mass in order to determine their densities. It will also observe hot Jupiter planets orbiting close to their parent stars to learn more about their atmosphere, and identify interesting targets for in-depth observations by future missions.Cheops is a partnership between ESA and Switzerland,\u00a0with a dedicated\u00a0consortium led by the University of Bern, and\u00a0with important\u00a0contributions from Austria, Belgium, France,\u00a0Germany, Hungary,\u00a0Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Launch is scheduled for 17 December from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\" target=\"_blank\" 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\/Videos\/2019\/12\/Meet_Cheops_the_Characterising_Exoplanet_Satellite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Meet Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out how Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, is going to investigate distant planets orbiting stars other than the Sun to discover what these alien worlds are made of.\u00a0As part&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640759,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640758","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\/640758","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=640758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/640759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}