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Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG sealed their agreement to build ESA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA. A bold scientific enterprise, the triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves: ripples in spacetime caused by the most powerful events in the Universe
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Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) and OHB Systems AG have signed a contract for the further development and industrial production of LISA’s key measuring instrument.
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NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources. On May 20, the full-scale Engineering Development Unit Telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)…
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ESA has announced the members of its LISA Science Team (LST): 18 scientists were elected and appointed for the first term from 2024 to 2027. The role of the LST is to provide scientific advice during the development and operations of the LISA mission. The LST is co-chaired by the ESA and NASA Project Scientists…
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It is with great sorrow that we have learnt that Pete Bender, at the age of 93, passed away last Saturday, 22 April 2024. LISA, as we know it today, has for a large part its origin in Pete’s creativity, deep physical insight and intellectual rigor.
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The red book is a comprehensive document which just got published with the LISA adoption. It describes the mission in its whole and is the result of the relentless effort of the LISA Science Study Team.
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Following today´s Adoption, the LISA mission advances to the construction phase LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, has passed a major review with flying colours: the entire concept – from the definition of the overall mission and operations to the space hardware to be built – stood up to the intense scrutiny of ESA´s reviewers.…