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European Satellite Mission Will Test Interferometry Systems for Gravity Wave Detection

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The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) Pathfinder satellite this month. Its 12-month mission is to test measuring instruments whose qualification is only possible in space. One such instrument is Kugler GmbH's gold-platinum cube for measuring gravitational waves. Gold-platinum cube. Courtesy of Kugler GmbH. The test device weights 150 kg and is 64 × 38 × 38 cm. It contains two vacuum chambers at a distance of about 40 cm, each of them holding a gravitational free-falling, cube-shaped test mass made from a...Read full article

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