The European Space Agency has announced that the launch of LISA Pathfinder, the spacecraft designed to study the ripples in space caused by black holes, is postponed due to a technical issue with the satellite's Vega rocket.
LISA Pathfinder, a satellite designed to try and detect gravitational waves that come in the form of ripples resulting from the collision of large gravity objects like black holes, was scheduled for launch Tuesday at 11 p.m. EST from French Guiana.
"ESA's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft is in stable and safe conditions and the launcher teams are currently working on this technical issue," said ESA, according to Reuters.
The teams will make a decision on Wednesday as to whether the launch can be rescheduled for Thursday.
Engineers from Airbus Defence and Space are behind the creation of LISA Pathfinder, a spacecraft that weighs 1,900 kg. It is designed to survive in the Sun-Earth Lagrange point, an orbit that is 1.5 million km from Earth.
The spacecraft is built almost a century after Albert Einstein first revealed the General Theory of Relativity, a concept that states how gravitational waves are able to bend the fabric of space and time, which is the center of the spacecraft's mission, according to the Daily Mail.
