Media conference "Launch of the CHEOPS mission"

For the time being, the Swiss space telescope CHEOPS is scheduled to begin its journey into space in mid-December on board a Soyuz rocket from the European Space Agency (ESA) in Kourou, French Guiana. CHEOPS is a joint mission of ESA and Switzerland, led by the University of Bern, in collaboration with the University of Geneva. Media representatives are cordially invited to inform themselves about the background and challenges of the mission: - Media conference "Launch of the CHEOPS mission". Date: Thursday, 5 December, 2019, 10:00 a.m. CET - Location: Building of the Exact Sciences of the University of Bern, Faculty Room, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern The following speakers will take part: Principal Investigator of the CHEOPS mission and Director of the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, University of Bern Please register by Tuesday, 3 December at medien [at] unibe (p) ch / Phone +41 31 631 41 42. CHEOPS was developed as part of a partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Switzerland. Under the leadership of the University of Bern and ESA, a consortium of more than a hundred scientists and engineers from eleven European states was involved in constructing the satellite over five years. A Soyuz rocket will take the research satellite together with a larger Italian radar satellite in Earth orbit at 700 km altitude.