The LISA Pathfinder Mission

被引：41

作者：

Racca, Giuseppe D. ^{[1
]}

McNamara, Paul W. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] European Space Agcy ESTEC, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands

来源：

SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS | 2010年 / 151卷 / 1-3期

关键词：

LISA Pathfinder; Gravitational waves; Inertial sensing; Laser metrology; Charge management; Micro-Newton thrusters; FEEPS; Colloids; DFACS; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; RELATIVITY MISSION; LASER; SYSTEM;

D O I：

10.1007/s11214-009-9602-x

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

LISA Pathfinder, formerly known as SMART-2, is the second of the European Space Agency's Small Missions for Advance Research and Technology, and is designed to pave the way for the joint ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, by testing the core assumption of gravitational wave detection and general relativity: that free particles follow geodesics. The new technologies to be demonstrated in a space environment include: inertial sensors, high precision laser interferometry to free floating mirrors, and micro-Newton proportional thrusters. LISA Pathfinder will be launched on a dedicated launch vehicle in late 2011 into a low Earth orbit. By a transfer trajectory, the sciencecraft will enter its final orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point. First science results are expected approximately 3 months thereafter. Here, we give an overview of the mission including the technologies being demonstrated.

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