CHEOPS
CHEOPS is ESA’s first S-class mission, developed with Switzerland, dedicated to precise transit measurements of known exoplanets around bright stars.
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Identity
- Aliases
- CHEOPS missionCHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite mission
- Name
- CHEOPS
- Status
- active
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- Astronauts
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- Description
- CHEOPS is ESA’s first S-class mission, developed with Switzerland, dedicated to precise transit measurements of known exoplanets around bright stars.
- Destination
- 700 km Sun-synchronous dusk-dawn Earth orbit for high-precision transit photometry of known exoplanets around bright stars, measuring their sizes and bulk densities to characterize worlds from super-Earths to Neptunes
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- CHEOPS completed commissioning and entered routine science operations in 2020, continuing to measure exoplanet sizes and densities for the ESA-Switzerland mission consortium.
- Programs
- Start Date
- 2019-12-18
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- Creation Time
- August 1, 2026 at 11:30:49 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 14:16:21 UTC
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