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	ESA - Space Science - LISA Pathfinder overview
		LISA will measure these waves, their intensity, properties and direction in order to investigate elusive objects such as fl holes and neutron star binary systems within our galaxy that we would otherwise have no way of observing.
		LISA Pathfinder will also test a set of micro-rockets that aim to control the spacecraft’s position to within a millionth of a millimetre.
		LISA Pathfinder was approved by the ESA Science Programme Committee (SPC) in November 2000.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/120397_index_0_m.html (793 words)

	LISA: Laser Interferomter Space Antenna Project
		LISA is a constellation of three spacecraft that uses laser interferometry to precisely measure distance changes between widely separated freely falling test masses housed in each spacecraft.
		LISA should observe low frequency gravitational radiation from likely sources out to cosmological distances, and would be an important complement to the ground-based experiments already being operated.
		LISA is a NASA/ESA mission and is expected to launch at the beginning of the next decade.
	lisa.gsfc.nasa.gov (209 words)

	eoPortal directory: LISA Pathfinder (LPF) Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The LISA Pathfinder mission of ESA is a technology demonstration mission, a kind of physics research laboratory in space, with the objective to test and verify the key technologies needed for highly accurate formation flying and precise measurement of the separation between two very distant spacecraft.
		LISA Pathfinder is a necessary precursor mission for LISA, the joint ESA and NASA formation-flying mission (launch 2013/4) of three spacecraft.
		The main goal of the LISA Pathfinder mission is to demonstrate the concept of the gravitational wave detection using a single spacecraft: it will put two test masses in a near-perfect gravitational free-fall and control and measure their motion with unprecedented accuracy.
	directory.eoportal.org /pres_LISAPathfinderLPFMission.html (3927 words)

	ESA - Space Science - LISA overview
		The LISA spacecraft must be able to compensate for the constant low-level buffeting by the solar wind and to correct for minute orbital changes introduced by solar radiation pressure.
		In May 1993, the LISA mission was proposed by a team of United States and European scientists as a joint ESA/NASA mission.
		A six-spacecraft version of LISA was suggested in October 1993, as a candidate for a Cornerstone mission under the former ESA's Horizon 2000 Plus programme.
	www.esa.int /export/esaSC/120376_index_0_m.html (1470 words)

	LISA Pathfinder
		LISA Pathfinder (formerly known as SMART-2), the second of the ESA Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology, is a dedicated technology demonstrator for the joint ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission.
		In LISA Pathfinder, the optical metrology system essentially makes two measurements; the separation of the test masses, and the position of one test mass with respect to the optics bench.
		LISA Pathfinder is due to be launched in October 2009 on-board a dedicated launcher.
	www.phys.lsu.edu /mog/mog27/node10.html (1086 words)

	The Day LISA Pathfinder Hung in the Balance
		Once in space, LISA Pathfinder's proof-masses will be used to detect forces as small as the weight of a typical bacterium, and test the theory of General Relativity.
		LISA Pathfinder is a precursor to ESA's LISA mission, to detect gravitational waves and test General Relativity in space.
		LISA Pathfinder paves the way for LISA, three spacecraft that will work together to detect Einstein's predicted ripples, known as gravitational waves, in the fabric of space-time.
	www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk /2006/15October2006_21.html (789 words)

	ESA - Space Science - LISA overview
		LISA's observations of these systems would be very interesting both for fundamental physics and for astrophysics.
		The LISA design is such that it can measure both the amplitude and the direction (called polarisation) of gravitational waves.
		The ESA-led study indicated that LISA was too expensive for a single agency to develop it.
	www.esa.int /science/lisa (1470 words)

	LISA-Pathfinder
		LISA Pathfinder is a mission to demonstrate, in orbit, the technologies for LISA, the ESA/NASA Laser Interferometry Satellite Antenna gravity wave observatory.
		The basic principle of LISA is to measure the changes in distance between freely floating ‘test masses’, literally, small gold blocks held in place by carefully controlled electrostatic fields.
		LISA Pathfinder is an in-orbit demonstrator of the key technologies for LISA: a kind of physics lab in space.
	www.skyrocket.de /space/doc_sdat/lisa-pathfinder.htm (565 words)

	Your Daily Briefing Of Satellite
		LISA Pathfinder is a mission that will test the general concepts and technologies needed for highly accurate formation flying and precise measurement of the separation between two very distant spacecraft.
		LISA Pathfinder will provide in-orbit testing and validation for the new concepts and technologies that will be used on European Space Agency (ESA)/NASA's Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA) mission, which aims to detect and measure interplanetary gravitational waves.
		LISA Pathfinder, which will be launched in 2009, will use test masses only 30 cm apart and placed on a single spacecraft.
	www.satnews.com /stories2006/3451.htm (348 words)

	Science News Daily
		This photograph shows the LISA Pathfinder gold-platinum proof-mass being placed over the high sensitivity balance used at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, France) to measure the proof-mass´s magnetic susceptibility.
		Once in space, LISA Pathfinder´s proof-masses will be used to detect forces as small as the weight of a typical bacterium, and test the theory of General Relativity.
		Therefore, scientists needed to precisely measure how the LISA Pathfinder proof-masses respond to magnetic forces so that they can compensate for this in their calculations.
	www.sciencenewsdaily.org /story-79789711.html (780 words)

	PPARC Road Map Projects
		LISA Pathfinder (formerly known as SMART 2) is a joint ESA/NASA mission intended to demonstrate the key technologies required for the future LISA mission.
		LISA Pathfinder mission is due to be launched in 2009.
		LISA Pathfinder was approved by the ESA in November 2000.
	www.pparc.ac.uk /roadmap/rmProject.aspx?q=137 (358 words)

	Scientific FrontLine / The day LISA Pathfinder hung in the balance
		Together they will allow LISA Pathfinder to lay the foundations for future space-based measurements that investigate the very core of Einstein's General Relativity.
		"On LISA Pathfinder, there are magnetic components that the proof-masses could respond to," says Laurent Trougnou, an electromagnetic engineer on LISA Pathfinder, at the European Space Agency.
		The measurements were conducted successfully over two days and take the LISA Pathfinder team one step closer to its scheduled launch date of 2009.
	www.sflorg.com /spacenews/sn101106_01.html (665 words)

	The two hearts of LISA Pathfinder
		LISA, a joint mission from ESA and NASA which is scheduled for 2014, will test the fundamental theories of gravitation, including Einstein's General Relativity.
		In "The day LISA Pathfinder hung in the balance," the European Space Agency reminds us that this mission relies on two small hearts.
		To this end, the LISA laser interferometer, which is formed by a triangular constellation of three spacecraft positioned five million kilometres distant from one another, will have to detect relative displacements over this enormous distance with an accuracy of less than a tenth of an atom’s diameter.
	www.primidi.com /2006/10/12.html (653 words)

	Cnes - PR64-2004 - CNES and french scientists to take part in european Lisa Pathfinder mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The LISA mission (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) aims to detect the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
		ESA selected LISA in 1996 as a cornerstone mission of its mandatory science programme and established a cooperation agreement with NASA.
		LISA Pathfinder will be launched in 2008 by a small European or Russian launcher into geostationary transfer orbit.
	www.cnes.fr /html/_455_465_3021_.php (364 words)

	Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA
		LISA works by setting out three spacecraft -- buoys in spacetime -- and measuring the change in their separation as they bob in response to passing gravitational waves.
		The three LISA spacecraft will be separated from each other by over 3 million miles, while the gravitational waves alter the distance between them by far less than the width of an atom.
		LISA's lasers will measure tiny changes caused by passing waves in the motion of freely falling test masses in each spacecraft at a sub-nanometer accuracy.
	universe.nasa.gov /press/2005/050113a.html (709 words)

	RedOrbit - Space - Searching for Gravitational Waves with LISA
		LISA Pathfinder is a demonstration mission that is designed to test the advanced technologies required by the ESA-NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a complex, multi-spacecraft mission that is scheduled for launch in the first half of the next decade.
		Although LISA will not be affected by vibrations found in ground-based observatories, the test masses must be cocooned within active shields to protect them from the constant buffeting by charged particles pouring out of the Sun.
		LISA is an ESA-NASA mission involving three spacecraft flying approximately 5 million kilometres apart in an equilateral triangle formation.
	www.redorbit.com /news/stories/1/2004/06/16/story004.html (844 words)

	Space News - The day LISA Pathfinder hung in the balance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		LISA Pathfinder will test a technique designed to measure a frame of reference much more precisely than ever before.
		It turns out that a magic mixture of these two metals has almost no magnetic susceptibility, yet even that was not good enough for LISA Pathfinder.
		LISA Pathfinder paves the way for LISA, three spacecraft that will work together to detect Einstein's predicted ripples, known as gravitational waves, in the fabric of spacetime.
	www.space.aero /en/eu/news/200610/2006101101.htm (634 words)

	Instrumentation: LISA Pathfinder
		LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) Pathfinder, formally known as SMART-2 (Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology), will pioneer the development of space-based gravitational-wave detectors.
		The LISA Pathfinder mission will serve to demonstrate key technologies that will later be employed in the LISA mission.
		The objectives of the contract were focussed on understanding the Phase Measurement System for LISA by means of software tools, identifying the critical components needed to achieve the performance requirements, and justifying the technical solutions proposed by a combination of laboratory testing and preparations for in-orbit testing on LISA Pathfinder.
	www.sr.bham.ac.uk /instrument/lisapf.html (362 words)

	LISA Pathfinder Home Page
		LISA Pathfinder (formerly known as SMART-2) is a mission designed to pave the way for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission by testing in flight the critical technologies required for space-borne 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 is due to be launched in October 2009 from the Russian spaceport of Plesetsk on-board a Rockot launch vehicle.
		Other LISA Pathfinder pages under ESA Sci-Tech Portal are more specifically directed to the public and press.
	www.rssd.esa.int /index.php?project=LISAPATHFINDER&page=index (506 words)

	Fifth LISA Symposium
		LISA Symposia are held every two years, with the venue alternating between the U.S. and Europe.
		The first day was devoted to LISA Pathfinder, a technology demonstrator mission that will test key LISA technologies, especially the inertial sensing and and drag-free control.
		Work on both sides of the Atlantic appears to be proceeding smoothly towards LISA Pathfinder's scheduled launch in 2008.
	www.phys.lsu.edu /mog/mog24/node16.html (535 words)

	LISA Pathfinder Home Page
		After separation from the propulsion module, the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft will be stabilised using the micro-Newton thrusters, entering a Lissajous orbit around L1 (500,000km by 800,000km orbit).
		LISA Pathfinder was first proposed in 1998 under the name ELITE (European LISA Technology Experiment).
		Originally LISA Pathfinder/SMART-2 consisted of two payloads; the LISA Technology Package (LTP) (left) provided by ESA member states, and the the NASA provided Disturbance Reduction System (DRS), also known as ST-7.
	www.rssd.esa.int /index.php?project=LISAPATHFINDER&page=spacecraft (506 words)

	Space Technology 7
		The spacecraft will be launched in an Earth-escape trajectory and then delivered to its predetermined orbit by the propulsion module, which is supplied with power and driving signals by the spacecraft through an umbilical connection.
		LISA Pathfinder cutaway view, with and without solar array.
		LISA Pathfinder is a prelude to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) joint ESA and NASA mission (launch date indefinite).
	nmp.jpl.nasa.gov /st7/TECHNOLOGY/spacecraft.html (288 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: LISA Pathfinder
		LISA Pathfinder is to demonstrate the key technologies to be used in the future LISA mission
		LISA Pathfinder will pave the way for the LISA mission by testing in flight the very concept of the 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 mission report from 35th COSPAR meeting
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=40 (137 words)

	engineer for lisa pathfinder
		INSA seeks candidates for an Engineer position for LISA Pathfinder at the European Space Astronomy Centre, at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain.
		LISA Pathfinder (LPF) is the technology demonstrator for the LISA mission and its primary goal is to demonstrate the critical technologies needed for LISA.
		The Science and Technology Operations Centre (STOC) is the point of interface to the scientific community, and is responsible for the payload scheduling, quick-look data analysis, data processing and archiving.
	www.space-careers.com /jobsearch/view_2050.html (716 words)

	operations scientist for lisa pathfinder
		INSA seeks candidates for an Operations Scientist for LISA Pathfinder at the European Space Astronomy Centre, at Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, Spain.
		The Operations Scientist will be expected to participate in the LISA payload development activities, especially in the areas of direct overlap with LISA Pathfinder.
		As LPF is a technology demonstrator for the LISA mission, the Operations Scientist will be involved in the transfer of the technology and lessons learned from the LPF mission to the LISA project.
	www.space-careers.com /jobsearch/view_2051.html (891 words)

	IngentaConnect LISA Pathfinder E2E performance simulation: optical and self-grav... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		LISA Pathfinder E2E performance simulation: optical and self-gravity stability analysis
		verifying the science performance of LISA Pathfinder (spacecraft and payload), is mandatory in order to minimize mission risks.
		In this paper, focus is on two particular applications of the E2E performance simulator currently being developed at EADS Astrium GmbH: the opto-dynamical stability and the self-gravity disturbance stability analysis.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/iop/cqg/2005/00000022/00000010/art00049 (197 words)

	Eberly College of Science \| Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA
		Because there are millions of galaxies in the visible universe, LISA might detect several inspirals each year.
		LISA is a joint venture between NASA, the European Space Agency, and European national space agencies.
		NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will supply NASA's test package on LISA Pathfinder and the scientific instrumentation and operations support for the main LISA mission.
	www.science.psu.edu /alert/Sigurdsson1-2005.htm (816 words)

	Operations Scientist for LISA Pathfinder (LPF)
		LISA Pathfinder (LPF) and LISA Technology Package (LTP) development: The Operations Scientist will support the development of both the LPF spacecraft and the LTP payload.
		LISA payload development: The Operations Scientist will be expected to participate in the LISA payload development activities, especially in the areas of direct overlap with LISA Pathfinder.
		Technology Transfer: As LPF is a technology demonstrator for the LISA mission, the Operations Scientist will be involved in the transfer of the technology and lessons learned from the LPF mission to the LISA project.
	www.aurora.nl /vacancy27SOO.html (902 words)

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