LARES: A New Satellite Specifically Designed for Testing General Relativity

It is estimated that today several hundred operational satellites are orbiting Earth while many more either have already reentered the atmosphere or are no longer operational. On the 13th of February 2012 one more satellite of the Italian Space Agency has been successfully launched. The main differe...

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Main Authors: Antonio Paolozzi, Ignazio Ciufolini, Claudio Paris, Giampiero Sindoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/341384