Gravity and astrophysics at UMiss

LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s technology demonstration mission that will pave the way for future gravitational-wave observatories in space, is being shipped to the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. Exciting times! More info on LISA Pathfinder can be found here and here. The current issue of Physics Today has a very nice overview of present and future experimental efforts to detect gravitational waves.

Update [9/4/2015]: the BBC has a nice article with updates on the status of eLISA and LISA Pathfinder.