{"id":99993,"date":"2019-12-21T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/esas-cheops-just-launched-were-about-to-learn-a-lot-more-about-exoplanets"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:45:26","slug":"esas-cheops-just-launched-were-about-to-learn-a-lot-more-about-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/esas-cheops-just-launched-were-about-to-learn-a-lot-more-about-exoplanets","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s CHEOPS Just Launched. We\u2019re About to Learn a LOT More About Exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXLWrJo3ZG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The CHEOPS mission is underway. On December 18th, the exoplanet-studying spacecraft launched from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket. Initial signals from CHEOPS show that the launch was a success.<\/p>\n<p>CHEOPS stands for the Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite. It\u2019s a partnership between ESA and Switzerland, with 10 other EU states contributing. Its mission is not to find more exoplanets, but to study the ones we already know of.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll watch as these exoplanets transit in front of the star, the same way we\u2019ve found most of the exoplanets we\u2019ve discovered to date. But CHEOPS will be focusing on the dips in starlight with a specific intent: to find the planets\u2019 size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CHEOPS mission is underway. On December 18th, the exoplanet-studying spacecraft launched from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket. Initial signals from CHEOPS show that the launch was a success. CHEOPS stands for the Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite. It\u2019s a partnership between ESA and Switzerland, with 10 other EU states contributing. Its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99993","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=99993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100062,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99993\/revisions\/100062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}