Cheops

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Orbit: LEOLaunched 12/18/2019

Technical Specifications

Verified technical details

Dry Mass: 273 kg
Total Mass: 273 kg
Power: Unknown
Design Life: Unknown

Stakeholders

Operator

European Space Agency (ESA)

Manufacturer

European Space Agency (ESA)

Launch Mission

CSG-1/CHEOPS

12/18/2019

Entity Mentions

All verified mentions of this entity in source documents

Arianespace scheduled a Soyuz mission for 2019-12-17 carrying the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed second-generation radar satellite, the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS telescope, and three smallsat secondary payloads.

Mentioned as: CHEOPSSourceNov 26, 2019

The 2019-12-18 Soyuz launch also carried an Italian radar reconnaissance satellite and the European exoplanet-hunting telescope CHEOPS.

Mentioned as: CHEOPSSourceDec 23, 2019