On December 03, 2015 at 04:04 UTC the “Vega” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. A Vega rocket blasted off with Europe's LISA Pathfinder tech demo mission, a probe heading to a station a million kilometers from Earth to test systems for a future gravitational wave observatory. Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.