... Earth,” said Kate Isaak, CHEOPS project scientist at ESA. “It follows on from CoRoT, from Kepler and from TESS, and it’s the first in a series of three missions from ESA that are dedicated to exoplanet science,” Isaak said...
... NASA decided to retire the spacecraft in a safe orbit, away from Earth. Although NASA’s newest exoplanet mission TESS has continued to survey the brightest stars near Earth for transiting exoplanets, Kepler’s data haul – the...