Loading Cheops into a thermal-vacuum chamber

A view of the complete CHaracterizing ExOPlanets Satellite, Cheops, surrounded by thermal test hardware before insertion into the thermal-vacuum chamber at the Airbus Engineering Validation Test facility in Toulouse, France. These tests were performed between 20 July and 2 August 2018 to demonstrate that the satellite is ready to operate in the extreme cold of space.

More about the testing campaign: Chilled and checked, shaken and not stirred