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Airbus Defence and Space now ready to start testing on CHEOPS

Submit on Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 22:58

Airbus Defence and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA’s CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), Europe’s first mission to search for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets.

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