May 8th, 2024
Researchers using NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected an atmosphere surroun...
April 5th, 2024
For the first time, potential signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ have been detected on a pl...
November 29th, 2023
An international collaboration between astronomers using the CHEOPS and TESS space satellites, in...
September 6th, 2023
Im neusten Band in der Reihe «Globi Wissen» besucht der wissbegierige, blaue Vogel die Universitä...
August 6th, 2023
With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed...
July 10th, 2023
Data from ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has led to the surprising revelation that an ultra-hot e...
March 9th, 2023
After more than three years in orbit, the mission of the CHEOPS space telescope has just been ext...
March 3rd, 2023
More than 5000 exoplanets have been discovered to date, but what do they look like? ESA’s dedicat...
February 8th, 2023
During a break from looking at planets around other stars, ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satelli...
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...
November 3rd, 2021
Astronomers led by the UNIGE and members of NCCR PlanetS have discovered exoplanets that orbit in...
June 28th, 2021
While studying two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, the CHEOPS satellite has unexpected...
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...
September 28th, 2020
CHEOPS keeps its promise: Observations with the space telescope reveal details of the exoplanet W...
September 23rd, 2020
The Aerosuisse 2020 Award was presented to the CHEOPS satellite team at the Aerosuisse Annual Gen...
September 9th, 2020
Die internationale Zusammenarbeit sei für die Universität Bern von grösster Bedeutung, betonte Re...
April 20th, 2020
CHEOPS has reached its next milestone: Following extensive tests in Earth's orbit, some of which ...
February 7th, 2020
Next milestone in the commissioning of CHEOPS: After the successful opening of the space telescop...
February 5th, 2020
Last Wednesday, the CHEOPS team could successfully open the lid of the space telescope. How CHEOP...
January 24th, 2020
The cover of the CHEOPS space telescope was scheduled to be opened on Monday, January 27, 2020. T...
January 10th, 2020
The CHEOPS instrument and control teams at the Mission Operations Centre (MOC) at INTA in Torrejó...
December 23rd, 2019
Merry Christmas and happy new year! Illustration - « La Liberté », 18.12.2019, Alex Ballaman
December 18th, 2019
The relief was huge when the Soyuz Fregat rocket with CHEOPS on board took off shortly before 10 ...
December 18th, 2019
ESA’s Cheops mission lifted off on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, Fre...
December 17th, 2019
Liftoff is currently scheduled for Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 9:54:20 CET. On Tuesday mornin...
December 11th, 2019
Download this media kit to learn more about the launch of Cheops, the Characterising Exoplanet Sa...
December 11th, 2019
In a very formal and festive ceremony in Stockholm, the Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf presented th...
December 5th, 2019
The space telescope CHEOPS is scheduled to begin its journey into space on Tuesday, 17 December 2...
November 4th, 2019
Soon, CHEOPS will launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, to study exoplanets. T...
October 21st, 2019
Last station before launch! The CHEOPS satellite has arrived by plane on 16 October 2019 at Eur...
October 13th, 2019
Willy Benz is particularly pleased about this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for the Swiss astrono...
October 8th, 2019
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded with one half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier...
September 17th, 2019
Scientists at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland will be processing data from Cheops, ESA's Ch...
August 21st, 2019
The space telescope CHEOPS is foreseen to launch in the last quarter of 2019. “In July, ...
August 15th, 2019
Teams of scientists and engineers are simulating the launch, early orbit phase and commissioning ...
July 29th, 2019
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review...
July 22nd, 2019
As launch approaches for ESA's Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, CHEOPS, scientists are roundin...
June 25th, 2019
It takes collaboration and teamwork to operate a spacecraft. As the CHEOPS launch approaches, a E...
March 29th, 2019
Zweitletzte Station vor Reise ins All für Weltraumteleskop CHEOPS
March 11th, 2019
Recent months on the CHEOPS mission have seen the completion of spacecraft testing and the conclu...
February 14th, 2019
After a successful series of tests, the team that will operate the CHEOPS mission is ready for th...
November 26th, 2018
The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite, CHEOPS, will target 15 October to 14 November 2019 for la...
October 25th, 2018
After a long tour through Europe, the CHEOPS satellite is back at Airbus Defence and Space Spain ...
October 24th, 2018
For the CHEOPS mission, September was a busy month of acoustic noise testing and Electromagnetic ...
August 28th, 2018
Professor Willy Benz explains details of the satellite to the guests at RUAG. (Photos University ...
July 13th, 2018
2748 miniaturised drawings orbit the earth together with the CHEOPS satellite. The video shows ho...
July 5th, 2018
The latest CHEOPS test campaign can be thought of as the first full dress rehearsal for in-flight...
May 8th, 2018
Members of the CHEOPS consortium could be proud of their achievement as the science instrument of...
April 5th, 2018
Construction of the space telescope CHEOPS is finished. The engineers from the Center for Space a...
April 5th, 2018
Christopher Broeg is project manager of the CHEOPS mission. A consortium of more than 100 scienti...
March 29th, 2018
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December 18th, 2017
Airbus engineers use the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) to relay instructions to the ...
December 18th, 2017
With the flight models of the CHEOPS spacecraft and telescope maturing, crucial tests can now be ...
December 18th, 2017
The silver-coloured cylindrical unit in the foreground is the optical head of one of two star tra...
December 7th, 2017
Engineers at the University of Bern are developing the CHEOPS space telescope. From Earth´s orbit...
August 28th, 2017
During ten days in August 2017, the CHEOPS telescope had to withstand various tests on the shaker...
July 12th, 2017
In our previous update, we reported on the delivery of the CHEOPS telescope from Florence to Bern...
June 14th, 2017
After the engineers at the University of Bern integrated and tested models of the CHEOPS space te...
May 4th, 2017
At the end of April 2017, an eagerly-awaited cargo from Italy arrived at the University of Bern: ...
April 7th, 2017
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February 14th, 2017
At the University of Bern, the CHEOPS team integrated all electrical and electronic parts into a ...
December 19th, 2016
Over the last 10 months, the CHEOPS solar cell assemblies have been put through their paces in th...
November 3rd, 2016
From the beginning of December the topic of exoplanets will inspire the audience of the planetari...
September 29th, 2016
This interactive page describes the different elements of the optical bench to test and calibrate...
September 20th, 2016
The CHEOPS mission continues to make steady progress with a number of milestones being success...
August 5th, 2016
All seven members of the Swiss Federal Council paid the Center for Space and Habitability of the ...
July 1st, 2016
“The Universe provides ample scope to use one’s own imagination,” says Anna Lehninger. The art ...
June 21st, 2016
The CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) will be dedicated to search for transits by means...
May 4th, 2016
The CHEOPS spacecraft continues its fast-track implementation with the delivery of the instrument...
March 31st, 2016
Poster with selected children drawings from the campaign. Poster PDF
March 7th, 2016
The video shows the assembly, integration and verification (AIV) of the CHEOPS structural qualifi...
March 7th, 2016
When CHEOPS will be launched in 2018 it will be subjected to very high vibration loads. The vibra...
December 14th, 2015
The video shows the successful baffle cover opening test performed at Airbus Defence and Space (A...
August 21st, 2015
The space telescope dedicated to characterize exoplanets is taking shape. A camera installed in t...
July 2nd, 2015
At the University of Bern, the first hardware for the CHEOPS space telescope was delivered and in...
July 1st, 2015
This is the first entry in the CHEOPS Journal, a series of articles documenting milestones in the...
May 12th, 2015
On Thursday, May 7, 150 high school students from Lugano dealt intensively with the topic space. ...
April 13th, 2015
Studying the atmosphere of an exoplanet, astronomers of the NCCR PlanetS derived a temperature pr...
March 5th, 2015
An outstanding vacuum chamber in a brand new laboratory is now waiting for the space telescope CH...
February 27th, 2015
The CHEOPS homepage has undergone an overhaul and presents itself in a completely new design. We ...
December 18th, 2014
The CHEOPS design has evolved and we have rendered a new image of the CHEOPS satellite that is be...
October 28th, 2014
This is one of the first design concepts for the CHEOPS spacecraft.