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21 November 2017 Science, technology and mission design for LATOR experiment
Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, Kenneth L. Nordtvedt
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Proceedings Volume 10567, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2006; 105670R (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308047
Event: International Conference on Space Optics 2006, 2006, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Abstract
The Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity (LATOR) is a Michelson-Morley-type experiment designed to test the Einstein’s general theory of relativity in the most intense gravitational environment available in the solar system – the close proximity to the Sun. By using independent time-series of highly accurate measurements of the Shapiro time-delay (laser ranging accurate to 1 cm) and interferometric astrometry (accurate to 0.1 picoradian), LATOR will measure gravitational deflection of light by the solar gravity with accuracy of 1 part in a billion, a factor ~30,000 better than currently available. LATOR will perform series of highly-accurate tests of gravitation and cosmology in its search for cosmological remnants of scalar field in the solar system. We present science, technology and mission design for the LATOR mission.
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Slava G. Turyshev, Michael Shao, and Kenneth L. Nordtvedt "Science, technology and mission design for LATOR experiment", Proc. SPIE 10567, International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2006, 105670R (21 November 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2308047
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Space operations
Sun
Space telescopes
Telescopes
General relativity
Interferometers
Solar system
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