Completed · Success
ESA's LISA Pathfinder tested low-frequency gravitational wave detection from a halo orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point.
- Destinations
No celestial-body destination recorded; this extended-scope observatory studies a non-body scientific domain.
- Launch vehicle
- Vega
- Launch site
- Kourou, French Guiana
- Countries
- International
- Mission types
- Technology demonstrator
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
LISA Pathfinder · Spacecraft
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- LISA Pathfinder: Estimated · December 3, 2015 to June 28, 2017
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 15, 2026
- LISA Pathfinder overview - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- GCAT: General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (lunar and planetary catalog), J. McDowell — OTHEROther · Supports: mission claims
- LISA Pathfinder: spacecraft and original source products — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- LISA Pathfinder native source selection — ESASpice · Supports: mission claims
- LISA Pathfinder shutdown and final command — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- LISA Pathfinder faces technology challenges set by Einstein - ESA — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- LISA Pathfinder en route to gravitational wave demonstration — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context