LISA Pathfinder handover
Date: 07 March 2016
Satellite: LISA Pathfinder
Depicts: Members of LISA Pathfinder teams and of the mission review panel
Location: ESTEC, The Netherlands
Copyright: ESA–C.Carreau
Members of the LISA Pathfinder Project team, of Airbus Defence & Space Ltd (the prime contractor), of the LISA Pathfinder Science team, of the Mission Operations Centre, LISA Pathfinder mission manager, and members of the Review Panel, after the formal review of the LISA Pathfinder commissioning, held at ESTEC on 7 March 2015.
Standing, from left to right, are: Lothar Winzer (ESA), Jean-Pierre Balley (ESA), Martin Kessler (ESA), Ulrike Ragnit (ESA), Frederic Safa (ESA), Ian Harrison (ESA), Alvaro Giménez Cañete (ESA), Amadou Whittaker (ESA), Paolo Ferri (ESA), Toni Tolker-Nielsen (ESA), Mauro Caleno (ESA), Christian Trenkel (Airbus DS), Paul McNamara (ESA), Stefano Vitale (University of Trento), Andreas Rudolph (ESA), Juan Miro (ESA), Thomas Passvoegel (ESA), Dave Wealthy (Airbus DS), Hans Rozemeijer (ESA), Jonathan Gryzmisch (ESA), Damien Texier (ESA), Ian Hontsvet (Airbus DS). Kneeling, from left to right, are Joseph Huesler (ESA) and César García Marirrodriga (ESA).
Launched on 3 December 2015, LISA Pathfinder is testing the fundamental technologies and instrumentation needed for future gravitational-wave observatories in space.
