"Galileo galilei" (GG) a small satellite to test the equivalence principle of galileo, newton and einstein

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 689-710

  Nobili, Anna M ^a,b   Comandi, Gian Luca ^b,c   Doravari, Suresh ^a,b   Bramanti, Donato ^a   Kumar, Rajeev ^b   Maccarrone, Francesco ^a,b   Polacco, Erseo ^a,b   Turyshev, Slava ^d   Shao, Michael ^d   Lipa, John ^e   Dittus, Hansjoerg ^f   Laemmerzhal, Claus ^f   Peters, Achim ^g   Mueller, Jurgen ^h   Unnikrishnan, C S ⁱ   Roxburgh, Ian W ^j   Brillet, Alain ^k   Marchal, Christian ^l   Luo, Jun ^m   van derHa, Jozef ⁿ   van derMilyukov, Vadim ^o   van derIafolla, Valerio ^p   van derLucchesi, David ^b   van derTortora, Paolo ^c   DeBernardis, Paolo ^q   DePalmonari, Federico ^c,r   DeFocardi, Sergio ^c,r   DeZanello, Dino ^s   Monaco, Salvatore ^q   DeMengali, Giovanni ^a   DeAnselmo, Luciano ^t   DeIorio, Lorenzo ^b   DeKnezevic, Zoran ^u   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^j QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^l ONERA   (France)

^m HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

ⁿ KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^p INAF   (Italy)

^q SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^r INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^s INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^t ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^u Beograd Observatory   (Serbia)

more..

Author keywords

Experimental gravity; General relativity; Space physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349500502     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-008-9128-3     Document Type: Article

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