LISA Pathfinder

Gigantic space-based test to detect gravitational waves

Posted in Hardware on 8th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

A full-scale gravitational wave observatory in space would be able to detect fluctuations caused by the mergers of supermassive black holes in galaxies anywhere.
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Lisa Pathfinder launches to test space 'ripples' technology

Posted in Science on 3rd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

The satellite will test the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves, the warping of space-time produced by cataclysmic events in the cosmos.
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