16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... towards a total cost of near $10 billion for the project, Cheops is a small, or S-class, mission in ESA’s science programme... sample of exoplanets. For now though, all eyes will be on Cheops tomorrow as it heads for a dawn/dusk orbit at an altitude ...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... parent star and block a fraction of its light, to measure their sizes with unprecedented precision and accuracy. Cheops measurements of exoplanet sizes will be combined with existing information on their masses to derive the planet density. This...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...and planned ESA and NASA space missions such as GAIA, Cheops, PLATO, Kepler II and TESS will increase the number ...galaxy (e.g. WASP or HATNet) and space observatories (Kepler-2, GAIA, Cheops and TESS). The Twinkle satellite will be built in the UK and...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... in a number of extrasolar research missions. As well as the CoRoT mission, carried out jointly with CNES, the ESA CHEOPS mission is scheduled for launch in 2017 and ESA’s PLATO mission is planned for launch from 2022 onwards...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
...-travelling machine, we will never have a full answer. Yet, there are Egyptologists. Yet, we keep making discoveries in Cheops. This never-ending journey is the very essence of the human condition. Some of Van Hoeydonck’s artworks have...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... spacecraft such as BepiColombo due for launch this year and the agency’s Solar Orbiter, Euclid and Cheops programs currently in development, ESA need to be able to extend their present deep-sky dishes to cope with the...
