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ESOC ground operations team ready for LPF
A happy and confident Ground Operations Team ready for LISA Pathfinder launch at ESOC! L-R (seated): Daniel Firre, our LPF Ground Operations Manager, Yves Doat, Guillermo Lorenzo, Fabienne Delhaise...
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LISA Pathfinder launch timeline
Countdown resumed – update 2 December 18:00 CET On Thursday, a Vega rocket will boost LISA Pathfinder into space to pave the way to a future mission for detecting gravitational waves. Once aloft, ESA’s...
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Update from Kourou tracking station
This just in from ESA’s Dieter Amend at Kourou tracking station, our 15m ground station located not too far from the Vega launch pad. In fact, he and the on-site engineering team will shortly leave the...
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Getting to where we want to go: LISA Pathfinder’s journey
Today’s post is contributed by Florian Renk and the Mission Analysis team at ESA’s ESOC operations centre, Darmstadt. Florian did a lot of the planning work to analyse the ‘hows’ and ‘whens’ of LISA...
View ArticleLISA Pathfinder Burn 1 confirmed
This update sent in this morning by LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Operations Manager Ian Harrison at ESOC: The evaluation of this morning’s main engine burn conducted by LPF – the first of the so-called...
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LISA Pathfinder orbit manoeuvres: so far, so good!
Three done, three to go! These updates were sent in by LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Operations Manager Ian Harrison Monday evening and this morning, reporting on the results of the Nos. 2 and 3...
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UPDATED – LISA Pathfinder: Big burn burned
[UPDATE 9 DEC 13:00 CET] Report by LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Operations Manager Ian Harrison The actual performance of the fourth burn – ARM#4 – has been assessed and the result shows a 1.4%...
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Five down, one to go
The crucial series of six major engine burns – needed to get LISA Pathfinder to its final science orbit around L1 – continues to go well. Since the last blog post, the mission control team at ESOC have...
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LISA Pathfinder spotted!
On the evening of 8 December, LISA Pathfinder was spotted in orbit by a team from DEIMOS Space, working at a new observatory located in Spain: ESA’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft seen in orbit 8 December...
View ArticleEn route to nothing
It’s official! LISA Pathfinder is safely en route to a virtual point in space called the Sun-Earth Libration Point 1 (SEL1), 1.5 million km from Earth. A main engine burn during the weekend provided...
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LISA Pathfinder still hard at work
Jose Mendes and visiting scientist Daniele Bortoluzzi discussing what the test masses are doing as we perform repeated release attempts. Credit: ESA So, while main science has ended as of today (see...
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LISA Pathfinder sails toward the Sun
LISA Pathfinder is ready for a new – and final – journey to the Sun! On 18 July, the LPF mission will conclude with the final commands sent to switch off the on-board transmitter. Since April, the...
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