Earth orbit
Cheops
Cheops is catalogued by GCAT as a astronomy mission in the ESA Ast program.
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
View in 3D map ↗The mission
Cheops is catalogued by GCAT as a astronomy mission in the ESA Ast program. This reconstructed record groups 2 GCAT payload or flight elements under launch 2019-092; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
The launch
- Launch
- 18 December 2019, 08:54 UTC
- Launch location
- Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou, Guyane Francaise
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz-ST-A
- Orbit
- Low Earth orbit (Sun-synchronous)
Launch intelligence
An Arianespace Soyuz-2 rocket launched the COSMO-SkyMed mission on Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 8:54 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Arianespace
- Vehicle
- Soyuz-2
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2019-092
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Dec 18, 2019, 08:54 UTC
- Target T-0
- Dec 18, 2019, 08:54 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Dec 18 2019
- Pad and location
- ELS, Guiana Space Centre
Possible Light Rain and Humid Temp: 76.54F Wind: 7.46mph
- Temperature
- 76°F
- Forecast updated
- Dec 18, 2019, 00:17 UTC
Launch media
Mission timeline
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Current mission status
Now
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
Spacecraft
Cheops
GCAT program: ESA Ast.
- GCAT ID
- S44874
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Defense and Space Satellites/Barajas (CASA Espacio)
- Launch mass
- 273 kg
- Propulsion
- AOCS
- Dimensions
- 1.5 m long · 1.5 m diameter · 2 m span
EyeSat-Nano
GCAT program: CNES Cube.
- GCAT ID
- S44877
- Manufacturer
- Centre Spatiale de Toulouse
- Launch mass
- 7 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 m long · 0.1 m diameter · 0.7 m span
Gallery
0 images from Cheops.
No mission imagery is available yet.
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