LISA Pathfinder in space

Artist’s impression of LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s mission to test technology for future gravitational-wave observatories in space.

LISA Pathfinder will operate from a vantage point in space about 1.5 million km from Earth towards the Sun, orbiting the first Sun–Earth Lagrangian point, L1.

Animated sequence of the journey: LISA Pathfinder’s journey to L1