LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft ends Communications with Earth after superb Mission Success
ESA’s LISA Pathfinder received its final commands from Earth on Tuesday, marking the end of a highly successful mission of one and a half years
Read moreESA’s LISA Pathfinder received its final commands from Earth on Tuesday, marking the end of a highly successful mission of one and a half years
Read moreThe LISA Pathfinder has begun its second and final mission phase in its quest to validate the technologies needed for a full-scale mission dedicated to the measurement of gravitational waves.
Read moreESA’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft arrived at its distant worksite, located 1.5 Million Kilometers from Earth for the mission’s ambitious demonstration of cutting edge technology needed for the measurement of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
Read moreESA’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft has wrapped up its three-day checkout sequence and began a series of six propulsive maneuvers to depart Earth and head towards the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1 where it is expected to arrive in late January to begin its demonstration mission of a highly precise distance measurement system and Micro-Propulsion Systems for extremely accurate spacecraft control.
Read moreESA’s LISA Pathfinder was provided with an on-target orbital delivery by its Vega launch vehicle, enabling the craft to depart Low Earth Orbit in the coming days in order to begin its departure of Earth to head towards the L1 Earth-Sun Lagrange Point where the spacecraft is expected to arrive in late January.
Read moreESA’s LISA Pathfinder embarked on a critical demonstration mission on Thursday, making a thundering blastoff atop a Vega rocket launching from the ZLV launch site at the Guiana Space Center for a trip to Low Earth Orbit.
Read moreThe launch of ESA’s LISA Pathfinder Mission atop a Vega rocket has been re-aligned for Thursday morning at 4:04:00 UTC.
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