CHEOPS leaving ESA's technical centre
Date: 27 September 2018
Satellite: CHEOPS
Depicts: Transporter truck
Location: European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Copyright: ESA
On 27 September 2018, the CHEOPS satellite left ESA's technical centre in The Netherlands, where it had undergone acoustic noise and electromagnetic compatibility tests. After these tests, it returned to Airbus Defence and Space Spain in Madrid for the final preparations before being shipped to Europe's spaceport in Kourou for launch.
More about the testing campaign: #14: CHEOPS - withstanding the sound of launch and avoiding radio interference
Last Update: 1 September 2019
