LISA was renamed eLISA and then NGO, but it's not dead. The LISA pathfinder mission will fly next year to prove the concept, and development on LISA will continue. It was not voted for the highest priority mission (L1), but not for scientific reasons, and it is anything else than dead. It can still fly 2026 or so, which would be only one year later than when it had been voted L1.
LISA was renamed eLISA and then NGO, but it's not dead. The LISA pathfinder mission will fly next year to prove the concept, and development on LISA will continue. It was not voted for the highest priority mission (L1), but not for scientific reasons, and it is anything else than dead. It can still fly 2026 or so, which would be only one year later than when it had been voted L1.
BM
Dead.. Poor choice of words :-)
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
There's a new BBC News article by Jonathan Amos on "Still waiting to catch the gravitational wave" which has an interesting discussion of the issues at this url:
The possibility of
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The possibility of scaled-down versions of LISA is discussed in this article in Scientific American.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lisa-mission-gravitational-waves
This ESA announcement speaks
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This ESA announcement speaks of a renounce to a New Gravitational Observatory in favor of a Mission to Jupiter. Was it LISA?
ESA
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From what I gather, after
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From what I gather, after NASA pulled out, Lisa was renamed NGO and it is dead along with an Xray Observatory in favour of juice.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
LISA was renamed eLISA and
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LISA was renamed eLISA and then NGO, but it's not dead. The LISA pathfinder mission will fly next year to prove the concept, and development on LISA will continue. It was not voted for the highest priority mission (L1), but not for scientific reasons, and it is anything else than dead. It can still fly 2026 or so, which would be only one year later than when it had been voted L1.
BM
BM
RE: LISA was renamed eLISA
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Dead.. Poor choice of words :-)
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
There's a new BBC News
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There's a new BBC News article by Jonathan Amos on "Still waiting to catch the gravitational wave" which has an interesting discussion of the issues at this url:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17926651