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New Gravitational Wave Observatory

(NGO, eLISA)
(past proposal for space mission to detect gravitational waves)

The New Gravitational Wave Observatory (NGO or eLISA) was a proposed European Space Agency space gravitational-wave detector to sense gravitational waves by measuring the distance between three spacecraft using laser interferometry. It was a 2011 scaled-down variation on the earlier LISA proposal. NGO was ultimately not selected by the ESA. Since then, further proposals for a future (2030s) three-spacecraft GW detector again use the name LISA.


(observatory,interferometer,space,ESA,gravitational waves,plan,past)
Further reading:
http://sci.esa.int/ngo/
https://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/studies/architecting/grav-wave/workshop/5_S_Vitale_NGO.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012CQGra..29l4016A/abstract
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2012/09/11/new-life-for-gravitational-waves-in-space/

Referenced by pages:
gravitational wave spectrum
LISA

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