LISA Pathfinder prepares for liftoff (4K timelapse replay)
This timelapse video shows the preparations for LISA Pathfinder’s launch at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The video spans three weeks, starting on 12 November 2015 with the completed and fuelled spacecraft and ending on the 3 December launch day.
Over this period, the spacecraft was attached to the payload adaptor of the Vega launcher, encapsulated within the half-shells of the rocket fairing, transferred to the launcher assembly area, and installed on top of Vega inside the mobile gantry, which was rolled back shortly before liftoff.
LISA Pathfinder will test key technologies for space-based observation of gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Credit/Copyrights: Directed by Stephane Corvaja, ESA; Edited by Manuel Pedoussaut, Zetapress; Music: Hubrid-Gravity
At what altitude does Vega start the gravity turn? How does that work? I'm sure it's nothing like Kerbal Space Program haha
Rockets without landing are so old school 😀
thank you good stewards.
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Soundtrack please!
Cooool, i like Rockets !!!!!
VERY nice video. Liftoff could be played in 1x speed, real time.
why not use spacex?
It has to travel that far from the assembly line to the launching pad. Is that a good idea?
how will the finding of gravitational waves affect LISA project?
What a precise stuff people create! Millions of details and all works together and gives reaching an aim! Low bow to human's minds and hands!