CHEOPS: CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), August 2024
CHEOPS is an ESA space mission that has been travelling since the end of 2019. Using a small optical telescope with an aperture of 32 cm on board the satellite, it measures individual stars from a low Earth orbit where planets have already been found. The high-precision transit measurements make it possible to precisely determine the radius of the planets and detect other planets in the system.
Artist’s depiction of the CHEOPS satellite. Credit: ©ESA
To learn more about the mission, visit the CHEOPS website at ESA or the CHEOPS mission consortium website.
Other missions: ARIEL – CoRoT – Gaia – Hubble – James Webb – Kepler – PLATO – TESS