Gravity probe B: Final results of a space experiment to test general relativity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Everitt, C W F ^a   Debra, D B ^a   Parkinson, B W ^a   Turneaure, J P ^a   Conklin, J W ^a   Heifetz, M I ^a   Keiser, G M ^a   Silbergleit, A S ^a   Holmes, T ^a   Kolodziejczak, J ^b   Al Meshari, M ^c   Mester, J C ^a   Muhlfelder, B ^a   Solomonik, V G ^a   Stahl, K ^a   Worden, P W ^a   Bencze, W ^a   Buchman, S ^a   Clarke, B ^a   Al Jadaan, A ^c   Al Jibreen, H ^c   Li, J ^a   Lipa, J A ^a   Lockhart, J M ^a   Al Suwaidan, B ^c   Taber, M ^a   Wang, S ^a   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; DRIFT RATES; EARTH ORBITS; EINSTEIN'S THEORY; FRAME-DRAGGING; GENERAL RELATIVITY; GRAVITY PROBE-B; SPACE EXPERIMENTS;

EARTH (PLANET); EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; GEODESY; GYROSCOPES; PROBES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 79960625176     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.221101     Document Type: Article

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