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News
Globi an der Uni Bern
September 6th, 2023
Im neusten Band in der Reihe «Globi Wissen» besucht der wissbegierige, blaue Vogel die Universitä...
Elusive planets play “hide and seek” with CHEOPS
August 6th, 2023
With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed...
Cheops shows scorching exoplanet acts like a mirror
July 10th, 2023
Data from ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has led to the surprising revelation that an ultra-hot e...
CHEOPS' location
Live position of the CHEOPS satellite
The Mission
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.
CHEOPS-Children’s Drawings Campaign
Below are 3 of the 2748 drawings that orbit the earth with the CHEOPS satellite.
CHEOPS mission extended (En - De/Fr subtitles)
Picture of the Month
CHEOPS reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet
January 12th, 2022
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day...