ESA press release: LISAPathfinder prepares for final exams
The summer is coming and that means students across Europe are sitting their final tests. ESA’s LISAPathfinder, a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for space-based gravitational wave observaotires, is no different. It is currently in the test centre at IABG, Ottobrunn, Germany. …
The LISA Pathfinder science module pictured in a cleanroom at IABG, Ottobrunn, Germany, in June 2015. One of two (gold coloured) colloidal micro-Newton thrusters, part of the NASA provided Space Technology 7 mission, can be seen on the side of the spacecraft. © ESA – P. McNamara