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NASA is Building Telescopes for the LISA Mission

NASA is supplying all six telescopes for their joint LISA mission with the ESA. In this image, a technician is inspecting a prototype in a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Image Credit: NASA/Dennis Henry

Some of the most cataclysmic and mysterious events in the cosmos only reveal themselves by their gravitational waves. We’ve detected some of them with our ground-based detectors, but the size of these detectors is limited. The next step forward in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy is a space-based detector: LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.

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