904: LISA in the year 2034 AD. Charles Dunn, LISA Pathfinder, NASA JPL.

Published: Dec. 27, 2020, 4:15 a.m.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1856. Atlas designed to illustrate Burritt's Geography of the heavens ... /   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow LISA in the year 2034 AD.  Charles Dunn, LISA Pathfinder, NASA JPL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder LISA Pathfinder, formerly Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology-2 (SMART-2), was an ESA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESA) spacecraft that was launched on 3 December 2015 on board Vega flight VV06 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_flight_VV06) .[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder#cite_note-completed-3) [4] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder#cite_note-esapr-4) [5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder#cite_note-ESAlaunch-5) The mission tested technologies needed for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Antenna) (LISA), an ESA gravitational wave (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave) observatory planned to be launched in 2034. The scientific phase started on 8 March 2016 and lasted almost sixteen months.[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_Pathfinder#cite_note-6) In April 2016 ESA announced that LISA Pathfinder demonstrated that the LISA mission is feasible.