LARES: A NEW ASI MISSION TO IMPROVE THE MEASUREMENT OF LENSE-THIRRING EFFECT WITH SATELLITE LASER RANGING
| dc.contributor.author | Pavlis, Erricos C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ciufolini, I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paolozzi, A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-09T18:55:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-09T18:55:14Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | LARES, Laser Relativity Satellite, is a spherical laser-ranged satellite, passive and covered with retroreflectors. It will be launched with ESA’s new launch vehicle VEGA (ESA-ELV-ASI-AVIO) in early 2012. Its orbital elements will be: inclination 70◦ ± 1◦, semi-major axis 7830 km and near zero eccentricity. Its weight is about 387 kg and its radius 18.2 cm. It will be the single known most dense body orbiting Earth in the solar system, and the non-gravitational perturbations will be minimized by its very small ’cross-section-to-mass’ ratio. The main objective of the LARES satellite is a test of the frame-dragging effect, a consequence of the gravitomagnetic field predicted by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. Together with the orbital data from LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2, it will allow a measurement of frame-dragging with an accuracy of a few percent. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Erricos Pavlis gratefully acknowledges the support of NASA Grant NNX09AU86G; Ignazio Ciufolini and Antonio Paolozzi gratefully acknowledge the support of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Grants I/043/08/0 and I/016/07/0. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://syrte.obspm.fr/journees2011/pdf/pavlis2.pdf | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 4 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m21l3m-7dp4 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pavlis E.C. et al., LARES: A new ASI mission to improve the measurement of lense-thirring effect with satellite laser ranging, Proceedings of the Journées 2011 Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels, https://syrte.obspm.fr/journees2011/pdf/pavlis2.pdf | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19801 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department | |
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| dc.title | LARES: A NEW ASI MISSION TO IMPROVE THE MEASUREMENT OF LENSE-THIRRING EFFECT WITH SATELLITE LASER RANGING | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |