Industrial Partners

A space mission would not be possible without the participation from industry. The following industrial partners contribute to CHEOPS:

Instrument

• Almatech, Lausanne (Instrument structure)
• Connova AG, Villmergen (Instrument structure CFRP)
• P&P Software, Tägerwilen
• HPS, Munich (instrument MLI)
• ADMATIS (Radiators)
• Pfeiffer Vakuum Schweiz AG, Zürich (Thermal vacuum chamber)
• Alpiq, (Clean air flow units)
• Minco SAS, Aston, France
• FARO Swiss Holding GmbH, Beringen
• pinPlus AG, Bern

Spacecraft

• RUAG Space Switzerland (Spacecraft AIT support)
• APCO Technologies, Aigle (Spacecraft structure components)

Science Operation Center SOC

• DEIMOS Engenharia, Portugal (Science Archive, Mission Planning)
• Astrocast, Switzerland (Preprocessing)

Mission Operation Center MOC

• GMV, Spain (MOC development)

Note: This list is currently focussed on Swiss industry and we are currently working on adding consortium member state industry.