A Vega rocket blasted off from French Guiana late Wednesday, boosting a sophisticated spacecraft into orbit for the European Space Agency to test techniques for measuring elusive gravity waves, the ...
LISA Pathfinder will use two 2 kg test masses made of gold and platinum that will float freely inside the craft and be separated by 38 cm. It will have a 20 × 20 cm optical bench – containing 22 ...
Following the first-ever observation of gravitational waves in February of this year—a phenomenon predicted by Einstein 100 years ago—which opened a new era of gravitational wave astronomy, the LISA ...
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully tested a key technology needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ...
Complicated inner workings for a complicated proof: with the LISA Technology Package (LTP), Airbus Defence and Space has now delivered the heart of the LISA Pathfinder scientific space probe. LISA ...