"Galileo Galilei-GG": Design, requirements, error budget and significance of the ground prototype

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 318, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 172-183

  Nobili, A M ^a,b   Bramanti, D ^a   Comandi, G L ^a,b   Toncelli, R ^a,b   Polacco, E ^b   Chiofalo, M L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equivalence principle; Fundamental physics experiments in space; Universality of free fall

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CYLINDERS (SHAPES);

EQUATORIAL ORBITS; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLES; FREE FALL; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; SPURIOUS EFFECTS; SUN SYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; SUPERCRITICAL REGIME; UNIQUE FEATURES;

ORBITS;

ACCELERATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GRAVITY; PHYSICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; TORSION;

EID: 0242362242     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2003.07.019     Document Type: Article

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