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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

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