{"id":641017,"date":"2019-12-18T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641017"},"modified":"2019-12-18T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:23:00","slug":"liftoff-for-cheops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641017","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff for Cheops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Liftoff_for_Cheops_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, lifts off from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Soyuz-Fregat launcher will also deliver the Italian space agency\u2019s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation satellite, and three CubeSats \u2013 including ESA\u2019s OPS-SAT \u2013 into space today.<br \/>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=\"_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\/Images\/2019\/12\/Liftoff_for_Cheops11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Liftoff for Cheops<\/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, lifts off from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Soyuz-Fregat launcher will also deliver the Italian space agency\u2019s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation satellite, and three&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641018,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641017","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\/641017","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=641017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/641018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}