LISA Pathfinder in space
EU–(ENEWSPF)–7 June 2016. ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory.Results from only two months of science operations show that the two cubes at the heart of the spacecraft are falling freely through space under the influence of gravity alone, unperturbed by other external forces, to a precision more than five times better than originally required.
In a paper published today in Physical…
