LISA Pathfinder overview

LISA Pathfinder was launched on 3 December 2015 by a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, and placed into a slightly elliptical parking orbit. From there, it used its own propulsion module to reach its final operational orbit, a 500 000 km by 800 000 km halo orbit 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, around the first Sun–Earth Lagrange point.

After the last transfer burn had been performed, and the health of the spacecraft was ascertained, the propulsion module was jettisoned on 22 January 2016.

LISA Pathfinder’s operational phase started on 1 March 2016 and was planned to last six months, shared between 90 days LTP and 60 days DRS, and 30 days joint operations. The DRS experiment used the European LTP sensor for its measurements. The mission was extended and ended on 30 June 2017.

LISA Pathfinder was launched on 3 December 2015 by a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, and placed into a slightly elliptical parking orbit. From there, it used its own propulsion module to reach its final operational orbit, a 500 000 km by 800 000 km halo orbit 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, around the first Sun–Earth Lagrange point.

After the last transfer burn had been performed, and the health of the spacecraft was ascertained, the propulsion module was jettisoned on 22 January 2016.

LISA Pathfinder’s operational phase started on 1 March 2016 and was planned to last six months, shared between 90 days LTP and 60 days DRS, and 30 days joint operations. The DRS experiment used the European LTP sensor for its measurements. The mission was extended and ended on 30 June 2017.

LISA Pathfinder was launched on 3 December 2015 by a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, and placed into a slightly elliptical parking orbit. From there, it used its own propulsion module to reach its final operational orbit, a 500 000 km by 800 000 km halo orbit 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, around the first Sun–Earth Lagrange point.

After the last transfer burn had been performed, and the health of the spacecraft was ascertained, the propulsion module was jettisoned on 22 January 2016.

LISA Pathfinder’s operational phase started on 1 March 2016 and was planned to last six months, shared between 90 days LTP and 60 days DRS, and 30 days joint operations. The DRS experiment used the European LTP sensor for its measurements. The mission was extended and ended on 30 June 2017.