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ISL | 1 month ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRACE_and_GRACE-FO
The primary challenge in determining the mass of Earth is actually measuring the gravitational constant, G, itself. Everything else involved is known at much higher precision. The product of G and Earth's mass is known to two parts in a billion, but the uncertainty in G is ~22 parts per million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant
LISA is primarily sensitive to time-varying gravitational gradients on timescales of a fraction of a minute to a few hours and won't be terribly useful for determining the orbits of objects in our solar system. (but it is very, very cool).
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