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LISA Pathfinder

Success Arianespace, Vega

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Mission

Astrophysics · L1-point

LISA Pathfinder will pave the way for future missions by testing in flight the very concept of gravitational wave detection: it will put two test masses in a near-perfect gravitational free-fall and control and measure their motion with unprecedented accuracy. LISA Pathfinder will use the latest…

What it put in orbit

ObjectTypeOrbitGlobe
LISA PATHFINDER 2015-070A Payload orbits the Sun–Earth L1 point
AVUM R/B 2015-070B Rocket body re-entered 2017-03-16

COSPAR ID 2015-070. Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).

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