Europe's new exoplanet hunter has begun star observations

The European Space Agency's Cheops (Characterising Exoplanet Satellite) mission launched in December 2019. Since then, it was run through a series of tests and star observations have begun. -- Europe's planet-hunting CHEOPS telescope spies its 1st alien worlds: https://www.space.com/cheops-space-telescope-first-exoplanet-discoveries.html Credit: ESA