Live position of the CHEOPS satellite
This is the official consortium homepage of the CHEOPS mission. CHEOPS is the first S-class mission from ESA and was selected in October 2012. CHEOPS was successfully launched on December 18th 2019.
CHEOPS stands for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite. It is a small photometric observatory which operates in a low Earth orbit to measure transits of exoplanets. See the «Executive Summary» for a short overview.
Most of the content of the menu items «News» and «Media & Outreach» is also available in German and French.
Below are 3 of the 2748 drawings that orbit the earth with the CHEOPS satellite.
December 21st, 2022
After a thousand days in orbit, the CHEOPS space telescope shows almost no signs of wear. Under t...
January 11th, 2022
With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope, an international team including researchers from the...
December 14th, 2021
After two years in orbit, the CHEOPS space telescope has exceeded expectations. By reliably revea...
January 12th, 2022
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day...