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Meet LISA, the Gravitational Wave Observatory of the Future

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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna , or LISA , could revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

In 2016 , the LIGO -Virgo-KAGRA detector network has made over 100 gravitational wave detections.

LISA was in the works years before those detections were announced, but the mission was given the formal go-ahead in January .

LISA will be in an Earth -like orbit around the Sun , spinning behind Earth .

Each of the three spacecraft is in a similar orbit, but they’re all shifted behind the Earth .

LISA ’s laser-beamed arms will each measure 1.55 million miles ( 2.5 million kilometers ) in length.

Unlike LIGO , with LISA , LISA won’t have to deal with the limitations of being on Earth .

LISA will be able to detect gravitational wave sources that Earth -based interferometers simply cannot.

Teams at ESA and NASA are building the actual hardware that will be sent to space.

LISA is a $1.6 billion project decades in the making.

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