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    LISA Mission Logo

    Date: 26 May 2005
    Satellite: LISA
    Copyright: ESA

    LISA is an ESA-NASA mission involving three spacecraft flying approximately 5 million kilometres apart in an equilateral triangle formation. Together, they act as a Michelson interferometer to measure the distortion of space caused by passing gravitational waves. Lasers in each spacecraft will be used to measure minute changes in the separation distances of free-floating masses within each spacecraft.


    Last Update: 26 May 2005

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