Testing CHEOPS at the University of Bern
August 21st, 2015
The space telescope dedicated to characterize exoplanets is taking shape. A camera installed in the clean room in Bern shows how the CHEOPS team prepares the structural and thermal model for tests in the vacuum chamber. https://youtu.be/0yVDhFiCQ0U In the huge test chamber the CHEOPS engineers run thermal cycles on the telescope's structural and thermal model (STM): under vacuum they subject the STM to temperatures from minus 60 to 140 degrees Celsius.