Athena will co-operate with LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. How do two satellites work together? Both are scheduled for launch in the early 2030s and have been in the works for more than five years already. This is not uncommon in astronomy but how does a person work on such a time frame?

Michael happens to be married to Sera Markoff, who recently appears on Space Cowboys too to talk about black holes.

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