Scottish labs receive £10m for space mission to study cosmic ripples

Artist’s impression of a project Lisa spacecraft (Max Planck Institute/PA)Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) -

Scottish research laboratories are set to benefit from £10 million in funding for a European mission to deploy spacecraft which will measure ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

The European Space Agency (ESA) project involves deploying three spacecraft which will orbit the sun more than 60 million kilometres from Earth, forming a triangle with sides 2.5 million kilometres long.