21 June 2017
LISA gets green light from ESA
ESA have given the go ahead for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to become a fully-fledged mission as part of its Cosmic Vision plan. Launch is expected in 2034. LISA will be on the hunt for low-frequency gravitational waves (around ...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
...space-time. Recently, both LIGO and LISA have hit the news in their search for a wave predicted by Einstein over 100 years ago. The ground-based Laser Interferometer...ask…? Well, as GWs traverse through space they cause the apparent position of distant...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
...years to boost the future of ESA and the whole European space sector. This is the agency’s biggest increase in funds ... projects such as the Athena X-ray telescope, the Lisa space-based gravitational wave observatory, and the Clearspace active removal...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
...an excellent performance of ~1% was achieved for the critical last apogee raising burn. Artist’s impression of a Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission concept pacecraft. In-flight experience The final noise model will be the basis for the...
