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During the night of 2 December, Vega accomplished a flawless sixth flight from its launch pad in Kourou. Thales’s Quasar inertial measurement unit perfectly fulfilled its role in placing the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft into orbit.
Vega is a light space launcher developed by ELV (European Launch Vehicle). LISA Pathfinder will reach its operational orbit some 1.5 million kilometres from Earth in the direction of the Sun in six weeks’ time. LISA Pathfinder is a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) that is paving the way for a future space observatory designed to detect the gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.
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