The European LISA Pathfinder satellite successfully undocked today and as expected the rocket which blasted off from French Guiana early this morning, to continue the route to your final destination, at 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
The operation was carried out at 0550 GMT and was confirmed by the operations center of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Darmstadt (West Germany), responsible for guiding the satellite From that time until his final position.
“We have successfully received the first signal from LISA Pathfinder. Extremely happy,” said the director of flight operations center of ESA, Andreas Rudolph.
Just a few minutes after separation, the LISA Pathfinder contacted ESA technicians on Earth, who proceeded to analyze whether the operation so far has gone according to plan and the satellite is in good condition and ready to start the next phase of their journey.
The LISA Pathfinder, will try for the first time to capture directly gravitational waves that Albert Einstein postulated in his General Theory of Relativity, he took off at 04.03 GMT spaceport Kourou.
According to the story of ESA, over the next ten days should run a series of critical maneuvers for the satellite to continue moving away from the Earth.
However, even extend your trip several weeks and is expected to operate LISA Pathfinder six times its propulsion modules between 6 and 11 December.
Then there will be a six-week journey toward the Sun, to their final destination at 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, in the so-called point Lagrange.EFE
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