Development status of the differential accelerometer for the MICROSCOPE mission

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 307-314

  Hudson, D ^a   Chhun, R ^a   Touboul, P ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Electrostatic accelerometer; Equivalence principal; MICROSCOPE; Space accelerometer

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROSTATIC FORCE; MICROSCOPES; PLATINUM; SPACE RESEARCH;

ELECTROSTATIC ACCELEROMETERS; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPALS; SPACE ACCELEROMETERS; TORSION BALANCES;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 34047097771     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.10.040     Document Type: Article

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