The European Space Agency has greenlit the LISA mission. The satellite construction is contributed to by Czechs

The European Space Agency has approved the so-called adoption of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission with a budget of €1.75 billion. A mission adoption is an important milestone in the development of space projects, where the European Space Agency takes a project from the assessment phase to the actual implementation of concepts and technologies.

Research
The mechanism for correcting the laser beam polarization when switching between primary and redundant lasers is being developed by a consortium of four institutes of the Academy of Sciences. The photo shows a working prototype Photo: Jan Ebr