CheopsESTEC Ground Facilities
CHEOPS acoustic testing at ESA's LEAF facility in ESTEC.
Credits:
ESA - G. Porter
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Licence: ESA Standard Licence
The CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet) spacecraft in the Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) test chamber at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on 7 September, 2018. The CHEOPS spacecraft is currently undergoing a series of acoustic testing. CHEOPS will be the first mission dedicated to searching for exoplanetary transits by performing ultrahigh precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets.
