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LESEUR , Pierre

Last name: LESEUR

First name: Pierre

2017 (v1)

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MICROSCOPE Mission: First Results of a Space Test of the Equivalence Principle

Touboul, Pierre Métris, Gilles Rodrigues, Manuel

According to the weak equivalence principle, all bodies should fall at the same rate in a gravitational field. The MICROSCOPE satellite, launched in April 2016, aims to test its validity at the 10−15 precision level, by measuring the force required to maintain two test masses (of titanium and platinum alloys) exactly in the same orbit.A...

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