{"id":4752,"date":"2017-10-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/Almatech-Goes-Hunting-for-Planets-with-Femap\/ba-p\/439516"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:58:20","slug":"almatech-goes-hunting-for-planets-with-femap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/almatech-goes-hunting-for-planets-with-femap\/","title":{"rendered":"Almatech Goes Hunting for Planets with Femap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Almatech is a Swiss aerospace company currently working with the European Space Agency with the development of a new space telescope to help identify and characterize exoplanets \u2013 worlds outside our own solar system.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><BR \/>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Engineering.com<\/A>, Dr. Luc Blecha, CTO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almatech.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Almatech<\/A>, talks about development of the space telescope CHEOPS (Characterising ExOPlante Satellite), and the role that the finite element method played.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/Almatech_Cheops_01-1_500x-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Almatech_Cheops_01-1_500x-.jpg\" title=\"Almatech_Cheops_01-1_500x-.jpg\" \/><span class=\"lia-inline-image-caption\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault();\">Femap FE Model of CHEOPS Space Telescope<\/span><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/DesignSoftware\/DesignSoftwareArticles\/ArticleID\/15613\/Almatech-Goes-Hunting-for-Exoplanets-with-Femap.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Engineering.com article<\/A> and see how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/femap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> helped with the space telescope design.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almatech is a Swiss aerospace company currently working with the European Space Agency with the development of a new space telescope to help identify and characterize exoplanets \u2013 worlds outside our &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":4756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-success-story","category-news","product-simcenter-femap"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/Almatech_Cheops_01-1_500x-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}