LISA Pathfinder being installed on its payload launcher adapter

LISA Pathfinder being installed on its payload launcher adapter on 13 November 2015 at the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana.

LISA Pathfinder will test the fundamental technologies and instrumentation needed for future gravitational-wave observatories in space. LISA Pathfinder is currently scheduled for launch with Arianespace flight VV06 – the sixth launch of Europe's small Vega launcher – on 2 December at 04:15:00 UTC.