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Stephen Taylor appointed to NASA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission

Posted by on Thursday, October 3, 2024 in Spotlight.

Taylor is one of only six scientists nationwide appointed to the LISA team, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA. LISA is a space-based gravitational wave detector constructed of three spacecraft separated by millions of miles in a triangle shape as big as the sun.

“My role involves planning for how LISA will take the laser data from the satellites and perform what we call a ‘global fit’ on all of the signals from a huge number of potential sources,”

https://as.vanderbilt.edu/news/2024/09/16/stephen-taylor-appointed-to-nasas-laser-interferometer-space-antenna-mission/