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LISA Pathfinder

space mission
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Erik Gregersen
Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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LISA Pathfinder, European Space Agency space mission that successfully tested the technology necessary for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). LISA Pathfinder was launched on December 3, 2014, by a Vega launch vehicle from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. LISA, scheduled to launch in 2034, will be a group of three spacecraft that are designed to search for gravity waves. The LISA spacecraft will be placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle with...

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