A European Space Agency (ESA) mission aimed at testing new technologies for understanding the universe has left Britain for final testing before being launched into space. The LISA Pathfinder mission's propulsion and science modules left Airbus Defence and Space for Industrie Anlagen Betriebs Gesellschaft (IABG) in Germany for final tests before shipment to the ESA launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, where they will be shot into low-Earth orbit atop a Vega rocket... Continue Reading LISA Pathfinder gravity probe moves to testing
Section: Space
Tags: Airbus, Dark Matter, ESA, Gravity, relativity, Spacecraft
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