Optical technologies in ESA programmes - Congrex
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LISA - Overview<br />
<strong>ESA</strong>/NASA collaboration.<br />
Measurement of gravitational wave us<strong>in</strong>g laser <strong>in</strong>terferometry.<br />
Constellation of 3 spacecrafts separated by 5 million km.<br />
Interferometric measurements of variations <strong>in</strong> distance<br />
between couples of test masses at pico-metre level.<br />
LISA Pathf<strong>in</strong>der technology validation mission.<br />
Mission Formulation activities<br />
LISA recent activities dom<strong>in</strong>ated by support to the Astronomy and<br />
Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2010) of the US National<br />
Academy of Sciences.<br />
Optics <strong>in</strong> <strong>ESA</strong> <strong>programmes</strong> | Roland Meynart | ICSO �ό��� 2010 | 05 October 2010 | Earth Observation | Slide 30