ESA to Establish Gravitational Wave Observatory in Space

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that they are coming up with missions whose aim will be to come up with a gravitational wave observatory in space.

In total, the ESA has been planning to come up with two large-class missions and one of them will be having this aim. The mission, Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (eLISA), is said to get launched in 2034.

It has been found that preparations of the same has been done as the technology to be used in the same has already been developed by the researchers of Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR) at University of Glasgow.

They have developed the technology for the ESA's LISA Pathfinder probe, which will get launched in 2015. "It's testament to the excellence of the work going on in Scotland today that a considerable part of the technology that will allow us to answer the most fundamental of questions", said Dr Harry Ward, lead researcher of the eLISA work.

The university has explained that the project aims to study the gravitational waves that have been created from early black holes. It further got revealed that a novel way to study the universe will be launched by the ESA in 2034.


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