Design and Fabrication of a Differential Electrostatic Accelerometer for Space-Station Testing of the Equivalence Principle

Design and Fabrication of a Differential Electrostatic Accelerometer for Space-Station Testing of the Equivalence Principle

The differential electrostatic space accelerometer is an equivalence principle (EP) experiment instrument proposed to operate onboard China’s space station in the 2020s. It is designed to compare the spin-spin interaction between two rotating extended bodies and the Earth to a precision of 10−12, wh...

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Main Authors: Fengtian Han, Tianyi Liu, Linlin Li, Qiuping Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-08-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
equivalence principle
differential accelerometer
electrostatic suspension
variable-capacitance motor
space station experiment
fundamental physics experiment
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/8/1262

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