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LISA Pathfinder overview
 
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LISA Pathfinder
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Artist's impression of LISA Pathfinder and its propulsion module after separation.

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LISA Pathfinder
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Artist's impression of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft.

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LISA Pathfinder
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Artist's impression of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft.

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  Spacecraft
 
LISA Technology Package
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Artist's impression of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) to fly on board LISA Pathfinder.

The partly transparent view reveals the two proof masses: 46-mm cubes of a gold-platinum alloy, housed in individual vacuum cans. The cubes serve both as mirrors for the laser interferometer (red light-paths) and as inertial references for the drag-free control system of the spacecraft.

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  Journey
 
LISA Pathfinder propulsion module
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Artist's impression of the LISA Pathfinder propulsion module that will be used to for the spacecraft’s journey to its operational orbit at the first Lagrange point (L1) of the Sun-Earth system.

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  Last update: 14 November 2011 
 
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