INDIA APPROVES CONSTRUCTION OF ITS OWN LIGO

17 Apr 2023 — The Indian government has granted the final approvals necessary for construction to begin on LIGO-India, a nearly identical version of the twin LIGO facilities. The Indian government will spend about $320 million to build LIGO-India, with first observations expected by the end of the decade. The planned facility will be built near the city of Aundha in the Indian state of Maharashtra. With its advanced gravitational-wave-sensing technology, LIGO-India will greatly improve the ability of scientists to pinpoint the sky locations of the sources of gravitational waves. Because of its location on Earth with respect to LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, it will also fill in blind spots in the current gravitational-wave network. For more details read the full story at Caltech.edu.