LISA Technology Package Flight Hardware Test Campaign

We present performance measurements of the optical metrology system that will fly as part of the LISA Technology Package experiment. These results were obtained during thermal-vacuum testing of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft. The optical metrology flight units were integrated in the spacecraft and operated in an artificial space environment at the expected in-orbit thermal limits of 30.5 °C and 9.5 °C. An interferometer performance of better than 6.4 pm/√Hz in test mass displacement, and 1 nrad/√Hz in test mass angular motion was demonstrated over the entire measurement frequency band of 3-30 mHz