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.
January 25th, 2021
The CHEOPS space telescope detects six planets orbiting the star TOI-178. Five of the planets are...
December 17th, 2020
In its first year in orbit, the CHEOPS space telescope has already revealed details of one of the...
November 5th, 2020
Space debris increasingly threatens rockets, the international space station and satellites. At t...
February 3rd, 2021
This animation shows a representation of the orbits and movements of the planets in the TOI-178...