Welcome to the CHEOPS website!
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 to be launched into low Earth orbit to measure transits of exoplanets. See the «Executive Summary» for a short overview.
Please use the menu for further information. The majority of the homepage is currently only available in English. The menu item «public» is also available in German and French.
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News
7 February 2020
Next milestone in the commissioning of CHEOPS: After the successful opening of the space telescope cover on January 29, 2020,…
5 February 2020
Last Wednesday, the CHEOPS team could successfully open the lid of the space telescope. How CHEOPS' fantastic journey on board…
29 January 2020
Decisive moment for the CHEOPS space telescope: The cover was opened as intended on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 7:38…
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Picture of the month
January 2020
CHEOPS can clearly be seen in this exposure of the night sky taken on 12 January 2020 at 13:18 UTC,…