The ESA plans to launch satellites to study gravitational waves
The European Space Agency (ESA) considers the mission of the Cosmic Laser Interferometer (LISA) one of its main tasks for the coming decades. The LISA mission will allow scientists behind gravitational waves to the edge of the foreseeable Universe. Perhaps this will provide a revolutionary new data on waves.
"We do not know what we will discover, but maybe we can get closer to the line that divides gravity and quantum physics," said ESA chief Alvaro Jimenez Cañete.
For the first time confirmed last year, but predicted by Einstein more than a hundred years ago, gravitational waves represent a ripple in space-time, which comes from the most powerful explosive phenomena in the universe. But despite the power of the sources of gravitational waves, they were discovered only recently. ESA expects to launch three identical satellites, which will be located at a distance of 2.5 million kilometers from each other, creating a triangle.
Scientists will study the motion of laser beams of satellites, hoping to detect minor fluctuations in space-time caused by black holes, collisions of stars or other catastrophic events.
The mission of LISA is now in the planning stage, but the authors of the project hope to launch the mission in 2034.
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If they launch these satellites by 2034, then this will be a serious scientific and technical breakthrough!
The first 300k years ( approx. ) of this universe was opaque to light, but not to gravitational waves ( apparently ).
So we need these kinds of telescopes to see what was going on earlier than 300k years...
I think it is a ver cool mission.
Will be interested to see if the British are involved or if they are still too busy disappearing up their own arses. LOL
Time will tell...
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