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| 10. Mission's path to new astronomy: more skystuff |
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By Jonathan Amos
BBC News Online science staff The contract has been signed that will lead to the building of one of the most ambitious space missions ever flown. The Lisa Pathfinder will demonstrate technologies that will be necessary to detect gravitational waves in space. Being able to see these "ripples in the fabric of space-time" should allow scientists to probe the Universe to within one second of the Big Bang. The European Space Agency has awarded the contract to build Lisa Pathfinder to EADS-Astrium in Stevenage, UK.  Lisa Pathfinder should launch in 2008 More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3836435.stm |
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