探测空间引力波有望揭开更多的宇宙奥秘。在国家重点研发计划项目的支持下，《光电工程》组织了“空间引力波探测星载望远镜专题(二)”。专题围绕空间引力波探测星载望远镜设计与分析、建造与装调、测试与评估等几个方面介绍了近期的主要研究进展，将为相关领域学者和专家提供技术研究的参考和合作交流的平台，并将积极推动我国空间引力波探测计划的研究进程。

Precision measurement tools are compulsory to reduce measurement errors or machining errors in the processes of calibration and manufacturing. The laser interferometer is one of the most important measurement tools invented in the 20th century. Today, it is commonly used in ultraprecision machining and manufacturing, ultraprecision positioning control, and many noncontact optical sensing technologies. So far, the state-of-the-art laser interferometers are the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, e.g. the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The LIGO has reached the measurement quantum limit, and some quantum technologies with squeezed light are currently being tested in order to further decompress the noise level. In this paper, we focus on the laser interferometry developed for space-based gravitational-wave detection. The basic working principle and the current status of the key technologies of intersatellite laser interferometry are introduced and discussed in detail. The launch and operation of these large-scale, gravitational-wave detectors based on space-based laser interferometry is proposed for the 2030s.