LISA Pathfinder prepares for liftoff

This video shows the final preparations of ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission is a technology demonstrator that will pave the way for future spaceborne gravitational-wave observatories. It will operate about 1.5 million km from Earth towards the Sun, orbiting the first Sun–Earth ‘Lagrangian point’, L1.