LISA Symposium Poster Session pictures are here! 🚀 Many of you were waiting for them, thanks for your patience and let’s all thank our amazing photographer Dennis Henry! 📸 More pictures coming soon! #LISASymposium2026 #LISAmission #nasa #esa
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First gravitational wave observatory in space. 3 satellites flying in triangle formation connected by 2.5 million km laser beams. An ESA mission with international participation including from NASA. Launch in the 2030s.
🎉 Today marks the completion of the nominal science phase of the LISA Technology Package aboard LISA Pathfinder. 🛰️ 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgqq... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission
Lisa Pathfinder mission overview
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Tracking water with LISA technology: GRACE-C, successor to GRACE & GRACE-FO, carries a laser ranging interferometer with LISA Pathfinder heritage. Sensing nm-scale shifts in satellite separation, it maps Earth's moving water - ice, groundwater, sea level. 🌍🌎🌏 #LISASymposium2026 #NASA
Meet Taiji, a Chinese LISA-class observatory proposal: 3 spacecraft, heliocentric, ~3M km arms, mHz band, early-2030s launch. Together with LISA, it would have a ~100M km baseline for sharper localization. Demo stages funded; full mission awaits approval. #LISASymposium2026 #ICTP-AP #UCAS #CAS
Halfway through #LISASymposium2026 and the energy's anything but halved! Brilliant talks and an engaged community. Let's chase them gravitational waves! Here's the crew and energy at midpoint - ready for round two! #lisasymposium2026
LISA's Phase Measurement System: Quadrant Photo Receivers + Phasemeter tracking science, reference & test-mass channels and syncing clocks across 2.5 million kilometer, the backbone of Time Delay Interferometry (TDI) noise suppression. #nasa #LISASymposium2026 #esa #gravitationalwaves #lisamission
WE WILL BE LIVE IN A MOMENT! Day 3 of the 16th International LISA Symposium: Plenary Session 5 (Waveforms and Interferometry) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnz9... Plenary Session 6 (Sirens, Signatures and Global Fit) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1xy... #lisasymposium2026
16th LISA Symposium - Plenary Session 5
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Brilliant and fun overview of Gravitational Waves and LISA ... and explosions. Big explosions! Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe, explained the importance of LISA to a broad audience and answered questions from the audience. #lisasymposium2026
LISA Symposium Public Lecture ... Listening to the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves and LISA ... by Lead NASA LISA Project Scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Ira Thorpe. 6:30pm at Stamp Student Union Hoff Theater (Ground Floor) #lisasymposium2026 #lisamission #nasa #esa
LISA will predict when massive black hole binaries will merge by detecting the gravitational waves created by the black holes orbiting each other. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰🌊) At #LISASymposium2026, John Ruan (Bishop's University) talks through the challenge of detecting their electromagnetic counterparts. (🕳️➕🕳️🟰💥)
A few impressions from our LISA Symposium Day 1 Plenary Speakers, captured by our NASA Goddard photographer Dennis Henry 📷 lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu #nasa #lisamission #lisasymposium2026 #esa
🛰️🔭⚕️🩺 Yesterday's highlights include the medical side effects of gravitational wave exposure as presented by ESA Scientist Oliver Jennrich: www.youtube.com/live/9YCgx1F... You can watch yesterday's and today's Plenary Sessions at www.youtube.com/@LISAcommuni... #LISASymposium2026 #xkcd
TRLs mentioned in one of today’s plenaries, but no mention of how that translates to Space Unicorns! See TRL5 & TRL6… @granttremblay.com @lisacommunity.bsky.social #LISASymposium2026
16th International LISA Symposium June 21-26, 2026 Plenary 3 (LISA Science Team, Optical Metrology System & more): www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyUg... Plenary 4 (EMRIs, MBHB Mergers, LECS): www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7U_... Schedule: lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu/schedule.html #LISASymposium2026
GRATTIS brings precision gravitational wave sensors to Earth, simplifying LISA's gravitational reference sensors into compact, robust instruments. This opens a new way to weigh our planet, tracking melting ice, shifting groundwater, and rising seas, mapping climate change & more. #LISASymposium2026
Gravitational waves carry information from before light could travel freely, when the universe was an opaque plasma. This opens a window onto new physics beyond known laws, and perhaps the very origin of spacetime, whether it began in a Big Bang or bounced from an earlier phase. #LISASymposium2026
In addition to the main org and social media teams, we’re collaborating with the science communicators to cover our symposium! Anna and Simon are driven young specialists in the field of the gravitational wave detectors. Tag along to stay informed about announcements! #lisasymposium2026 #nasa #esa
Great insight into the engineering of the LISA spacecraft this morning from ESA engineer Juan Pablo Rodríguez García. 🚀 #LISASymposium2026
16th International LISA Symposium June 21-26, 2026 Schedule: lisa-2026.astro.umd.edu/schedule.html Follow live: www.youtube.com/@LISAcommuni... #LISASymposium2026
🥳 Ten years since the Science Programme Committee unanimously voted for the extension of the LISA Pathfinder mission until May 2017. 👀 Find out more about LPF: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j0Y... #LPF10anniversary #LISAMission
🎉 Today marks 10 years since the publication of the very first paper from LISA Pathfinder mission: "Sub-Femto-g Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results". A milestone that launched a decade of discovery and exploration beyond Earth.
Congratulations to the @ligo.org - Virgo - KAGRA Collaboration on the release of their latest gravitational wave catalog. The Gravitational Wave Transient Catalogue-5.0 (GWTC-5) includes 161 new events detected between April 2024 and January 2025, further advancing the field of GW astronomy.
EGO and the Virgo Collaboration@egovirgo.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe @ligo.org – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events that adds 161 events to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390 🤯
Hello there! On this special occasion, we want to introduce a new kind of Force users in the galaxy: micro‑Newton thrusters.
#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Valeriya Korol on a paper by Valeriya Korol & Andrei Igoshev: "Probing the millisecond pulsar origin of the 𝜸-ray excess in the Galactic centre with LISA". Paper link 👉 doi.org/10.1051/0004... Coming up is a summary of the paper.
#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Léon Vidal on a paper by Léon Vidal, Hubert Halloin, Nam Dam Quang, Pierre Prat and Antoine Petiteau: "Aliased laser noise and TDI coupling with LISA On table", which can be found here 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
#LISACommunityTalks Shashwat Singh recently presented a paper by Shashwat Singh, Christian Chapman-Bird, Christopher Berry, John Veitch: "Constraints on Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral population + Revealing Massive Black Hole astrophysics: hierarchical inference with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals"
#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Sviatoslav Khukhlaev on a paper by Sviatoslav Khukhlaev, Stanislav Babak: "Assessing signal crosstalk between extreme-mass-ratio inspirals and Galactic binaries in LISA data", which can be found here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.20062
#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Devin Becker on a paper by Devin Becker, Scott Hughes, Gaurav Khanna: "Gravitational waves from the late inspiral, transition, and plunge of small-mass-ratio eccentric binaries", which can be found here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21897
#LISACommunityTalks The #LISACommunity recently hosted a talk by Maria Isfan on a paper by Maria-Catalina Isfan, Laurentiu Caramete, Ana Caramete, Daniel Tonoiu, Alexandru Nicolin-Zaczek: "Quantum computing tools for fast detection of gravitational waves in the context of LISA space mission"
