Airbus DS ready to start testing exoplanet tracker CHEOPS
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2015 - 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. Airbus Defence and Space, as prime contractor of CHEOPS, is preparing the first spacecraft test campaign in Spain. Th ... more
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