{"id":99800,"date":"2019-12-16T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/esa-satellite-set-for-launch-to-measure-sizes-of-exoplanets"},"modified":"2019-12-16T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:44:13","slug":"esa-satellite-set-for-launch-to-measure-sizes-of-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/esa-satellite-set-for-launch-to-measure-sizes-of-exoplanets","title":{"rendered":"ESA satellite set for launch to measure sizes of exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/esa-satellite-set-for-launch-to-measure-sizes-of-exoplanets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A compact exoplanet observatory built in Europe to help astronomers determine the sizes of distant worlds around other stars is scheduled for launch Tuesday from French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Designed to build upon discoveries made by previous pioneering exoplanet telescopes \u2014 like NASA\u2019s Kepler mission \u2014 the European Space Agency\u2019s Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite, or CHEOPS, mission will orbit some 435 miles (700 kilometers) above Earth with a small but ultra-sensitive telescope looking at faraway stars.<\/p>\n<p>CHEOPS will be capable of registering tiny changes in the brightness of stars as planets block their light from reaching the telescope. This way of observing exoplanets is called the transit method, and it\u2019s been used by Kepler, NASA\u2019s TESS observatory, and the French space agency\u2019s CoRoT mission to discover planets around other stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A compact exoplanet observatory built in Europe to help astronomers determine the sizes of distant worlds around other stars is scheduled for launch Tuesday from French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket. Designed to build upon discoveries made by previous pioneering exoplanet telescopes \u2014 like NASA\u2019s Kepler mission \u2014 the European Space Agency\u2019s Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}