Experts Incorporate Optical Bench into LISA Pathfinder's Core Assembly - Austrian Tribune

According to the revelations of a new report, optical bench has further been incorporated into LISA Pathfinder hub assembly. LISA Pathfinder is a technology test mission of European Space Agency (ESA), which is aimed at proving important key technologies for space-based gravitational-wave observatories yet to come. The observatories could be tested only in space and not on Earth. It is, therefore, that eLISA(evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), a planned large gravitational wave mission's laser arm, has been reduced to 40 cm from millions of kilometers. It could now fit into one spacecraft. Scottish Universities Physics Alliance Advanced Fellow, Dr. Christian Killow, told that it was rewarding so that CAD models could be seen turning into real hardware. The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics' Prof. Karsten Danzmann said that in order to prepare LISA Pathfinder's core measurement technologies to turn operational, it was just another main step that was completed. According to him, they were definitely on course for a 2015 launch. The report claimed that the documentation was likely to facilitate the operations centre so that the received data could be interpreted during the mission. "With the optical bench now in place, we have reached an important milestone. The sophisticated laser interferometer performs superbly and is ready for its job in space", said a statement from the University. via Science - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHd4dxbVf51CYv_BTmHl9Lt-tLX4g&url=http://austriantribune.com/informationen/132340-experts-incorporate-optical-bench-lisa-pathfinders-core-assembly

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