{"id":641391,"date":"2019-12-20T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641391"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:37:00","slug":"launch-highlights-cheops-and-ops-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641391","title":{"rendered":"Launch highlights Cheops and OPS-SAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Launch_highlights_Cheops_and_OPS-SAT_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Highlights from the launch of ESA\u2019s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Soyuz-Fregat launcher also delivered the Italian space agency\u2019s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation satellite, and three CubeSats \u2013 including ESA\u2019s OPS-SAT \u2013 into space on 18 December 2019.<\/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>&#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\/Launch_highlights_Cheops_and_OPS-SAT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Launch highlights Cheops and OPS-SAT<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights from the launch of ESA\u2019s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Soyuz-Fregat launcher also delivered the Italian space agency\u2019s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation satellite,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641392,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641391","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\/641391","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=641391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/641392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}