- Science: The mission of CHEOPS, the space spy who will look for extrasolar worlds at 27,000 kilometers per hour
The Spanish CHEOPS satellite, which will track the bowels of the exoplanets, will be launched this Wednesday, a day later than planned. This morning, when here in French Guiana it was 4.29 hours and there was barely an hour and a half left for launch, a red alarm light stopped the countdown. The Russian Soyuz rocket that was to transport five satellites into space, one of which is piloted by Spain to study extrasolar worlds, revealed some kind of failure, which made the mission abort.
Many hours later, around 9:15 pm on Tuesday, Arianespace has reported that a small power error in a rocket component was the cause of the suspension. At the same time, those responsible for the event have just confirmed that the launch will take place tomorrow in the same conditions as it was planned today.
That is, a 46-meter -high Soyuz rocket loaded with 200 tons of fuel and five satellites will leave for space from the rainforest of French Guiana at 5.54 hours (Wednesday, 9.54 in Spain).
Even so, five hours before the scheduled time, the final technical tracking will confirm if there is a problem or if the planet explorer beyond the Solar System will finally be able to start his amazing journey of cosmic espionage.
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